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instrumental case

grammatical case
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Summary

instrumental case is a grammeme[1]. It draws 1,624 Wikipedia views per month (grammeme category, ranking #8 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: case[3]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[4], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5], Towards a typology of morphological case[6]
  • Short name: INS[7]
  • Different from: instructive case[8], musical instrument case[9]
  • Exact match: http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#instrumentalCase[10]
  • Derivative work: instrumental-comitative case[11]
  • P14892: InstrumentalCase[12]

Why It Matters

instrumental case has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . eva.mpg.de. Retrieved . eva.mpg.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → grammeme
    Subclass of → case
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'bs', 'ca', 'ce', 'cs', 'csb',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: case"
  2. 26d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → —
    P14892 → InstrumentalCase
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/InstrumentalCase"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0429852-instrumental
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0429852-instrumental, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#instrumentalCase
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 38524, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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