instrumental case

Also known as instrumental, INS, inst, instr, instrument case

grammatical case

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Vinony's link graph records 484 inbound references to instrumental case, and connects out to Sanskrit, Old English and ablative case.

It is catalogued under the topic Grammatical cases.

Vinony links it to 58 Wikipedia language editions.

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exact match: www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#instrumentalCase
short name: INS
equivalent class: purl.org/linguistics/gold/InstrumentalCase

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Encyclopedic overview

In grammar, the instrumental case (abbreviated ins or instr) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action. The noun may be either a physical object or an abstract concept.

General discussion

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “instrumental case” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.