instructive

English

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Etymology

instruct + -ive

Adjective

instructive (comparative more instructive, superlative most instructive)

1. conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

   Well, that was an instructive lesson.

Synonyms

• (Conveying knowledge, information or instruction): informative

Translations

Conveying knowledge, information or instruction

• Dutch: instructief, leerrijk, leerzaam
• Finnish: opettava (fi)
• French: instructif (fr)

• German: lehrreich, aufschlussreich, belehrend
• Russian: поучительный (ru) (poučítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: informativo (es), instructivo (es)

Noun

instructive (plural instructives)

1. (linguistics) A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

Translations

Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action

• Czech: instruktiv (cs) m
• Finnish: instruktiivi (fi)

• Russian: инструктивный падеж (ru) (instruktívnyj padéž) m, инструктив (ru) (instruktív) m

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French

Adjective

instructive f

1. feminine form of instructif