• 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...
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  • In grammar, the instrumental-comitative case combines the instrumental case and the comitative case at the same time, functioning similar to the English...
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  • his foot") might be rendered in Russian using a single noun in the instrumental case, or in Ancient Greek as τῷ ποδί (tôi podí, meaning "the foot") with...
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  • An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals...
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  • (I cut bread with a knife), correspond to the instrumental case or related cases). The comitative case encodes a relationship of "accompaniment" between...
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  • instrument or means of a certain action (or, more accurately, as the instrumental case). For example: "με κτείνει δόλῳ." (Homer, Odyssey 9.407) "He kills...
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  • "Jessica" is an instrumental piece by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band, released in December 1973 as the second single from the group's fourth...
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  • Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical tendency for most sufficiently intelligent beings (human and non-human) to pursue similar sub-goals, even...
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  • declensions. There are seven cases: nominative (nominatīvs) genitive (ģenitīvs) dative (datīvs) accusative (akuzatīvs) instrumental (instrumentālis) locative...
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  • not a true case, serving only to provide a parallel to the Sanskrit ablative. In its place, the third case, the instrumental-ablative case, is normally...
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    several cases, and possession. Iñupiaq (Malimiutun) has nine cases, two core cases (ergative and absolutive) and seven oblique cases (instrumental, allative...
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  • Hungarian asztal and asztalnál (at the table). It is also used as an instrumental case in Finnish. In Finnish, the suffix is -lla/-llä, e.g. pöytä (table)...
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  • In philosophy of science and in epistemology, instrumentalism is a methodological view that ideas are useful instruments, and that the worth of an idea...
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  • grammatical case, of which there are 9: nominative case, accusative case, dative case, instrumental case, sociative case, locative case, ablative case, genitive...
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  • Ablative (Latin) (category Grammatical cases)
    joy". Some uses of the ablative descend from the Proto-Indo-European instrumental case. Ablative of instrument or of means marks the means by which an action...
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  • "Sandstorm" is an instrumental by Finnish DJ and record producer Darude. It was released as the lead single from his debut studio album, Before the Storm...
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  • biliyordum. // I knew when Ali broke the glass. The instrumental case functions as both an instrumental and a comitative. If a noun is to be in the first...
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  • Adyghe dialects. In the Khakurinokhabl sub-dialect of Abzakh, the instrumental case has the suffix -мӏе (-mʔʲa) or -ӏе (-ʔʲa) unlike other dialects that...
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  • Kannada has eight cases: nominative case (ಕರ್ತೃವಿಭಕ್ತಿ – kartr̥vibhakti) accusative case (ಕರ್ಮವಿಭಕ್ತಿ – karmavibhakti) instrumental case (ಕರಣವಿಭಕ್ತಿ – karaṇavibhakti)...
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    'raise') takes dative or instrumental case, and the causee in an intransitive action (e.g. 'rise') takes accusative case. Causative morphology is also...
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  • language still retains vocative, locative, and ablative cases. Old English had an instrumental case, but not a locative or prepositional. Blake argues that...
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  • Instrumentals Vol. 1, by Necro, 2001 Instrumental case, a grammatical case Instrumental value, one of two poles of an ancient dichotomy Instrumental variable...
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    grammatical cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, locative, instrumental and vocative; of these, only what used to be nominative and vocative cases survives...
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  • statistics, econometrics, epidemiology and related disciplines, the method of instrumental variables (IV) is used to estimate causal relationships when controlled...
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  • Georgia", the word "Georgia" is in the genitive case: Sakartvelos resp'ublik'a. The instrumental case corresponds to the preposition with in English,...
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  • two people, in addition to the usual singular and plural forms. The instrumental case was somewhat rare and occurred only in the masculine and neuter singular...
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  • cases are used: Он принес с собой бутылку водки. On prines s soboi butylku vodki. ("He brought a bottle of vodka with himself.") - instrumental case Он...
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  • contract Statutory instrument, a form of legislation Instrumental case, in linguistics, a grammatical case expressing the instrument by which an action is...
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  • Nominal declension is subject to six cases – nominative, accusative, genitive, prepositional, dative, instrumental – in two numbers (singular and plural)...
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    suggest that it has a locative and instrumental case. However, for inanimate nouns the locative and genitive, and instrumental and ablative, are identical....
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