instrumental case

English

An instrumental case.

Noun

instrumental case (plural instrumental cases)

1. (grammar) A noun case used to express means or agency—and is generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective. Languages that use the instrumental case include Armenian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Dyirbal, Georgian, Slovene, Polish, Quechua, Russian and Sanskrit. Extinct languages that used the instrumental case include Old English, Old Saxon and Old High German.

Translations

case to express agency or means

• Armenian: գործիական հոլով (gorciakan holov), գործիական (hy) (gorciakan)
• Belarusian: тво́рны склон m (tvórny sklon)
• Bulgarian: творителен падеж m (tvorítelen padéž)
• Chechen: коьчалниг дожар (köčalnig dožar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工具格 (zh) (gōngjùgé)

• Czech: sedmý pád m, instrumentál (cs) m
• Danish: instrumentalis (da) c
• Dutch: instrumentalis (nl)
• Faroese: verkførisfall (fo), tólfall n, amboðsfall n
• Finnish: instrumentaali (fi)
• French: instrumental (fr) m, cas instrumental (fr) m
• Georgian: მოქმედებითი (ka) (mokmedebiti), მოქმედებითი ბრუნვა (ka) (mokmedebiti brunva)
• German: Instrumentalis m, Instrumental-Kasus m
• Greek: οργανική (el) f (organikí), οργανική πτώση f (organikí ptósi)
• Hungarian: eszközhatározó eset (hu) (using -val/-vel ending)
• Icelandic: tækisfall (is) n
• Italian: caso strumentale m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 造格 (ja) (ぞうかく, zoukaku/zōkaku), 具格 (ja) (ぐかく, gukaku)
• Kalmyk: бүрдәгч киисквр (bürdägç kiiskvr)
• Korean: 조격 (jogyeok)
• Latvian: instrumentālis (lv)
• Lithuanian: įnagininkas (lt) m
• Malay: kes instrumental
• Mongolian: үйлдэх (mn) (üjldex)
• Norwegian: instrumentalis (no)
• Old English: tollic casus
• Polish: narzędnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: caso instrumental m, instrumental (pt) m
• Russian: твори́тельный паде́ж (ru) m (tvorítelʹnyj padéž)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инструментал m

  Roman: instrumental (sh) m

• Slovak: siedmy pád m, inštrumentál (sk) m
• Slovene: orodnik (sl) m
• Spanish: caso instrumental m
• Swedish: instrumentalis (sv)
• Telugu: తృతీయా విభక్తి (tr̥tīyā vibhakti)
• Turkish: araç hâli (tr), araç durumu (tr), enstrümantal (tr)
• Vietnamese: tạo cách

See also

• Wikisaurus:grammatical case