instructive

English

Etymology

From instruct +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/

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, educative, didactic

Translations

Conveying knowledge, information or instruction

• Bulgarian: инструктивен (bg) (instruktiven), поучителен (bg) (poučitelen)
• Catalan: instructiu (ca)
• Dutch: instructief (nl), leerrijk (nl), leerzaam (nl)
• Finnish: opettava (fi), opettavainen
• French: instructif (fr)
• German: lehrreich (de), aufschlussreich (de), belehrend (de)
• Italian: istruttivo (it)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lærerik

  Nynorsk: lærerik

• Russian: поучи́тельный (ru) (poučítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: informativo, instructivo (es), aleccionador (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 m
• Finnish: instruktiivi (fi), keinonto (fi)
• French: instructif (fr) m
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• German: Instruktiv m
• Russian: инструкти́вный паде́ж m (instruktívnyj padéž), инструкти́в (ru) m (instruktív)

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French

Adjective

instructive

1. feminine singular of instructif