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"sense": "Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action",
"word": "keinonto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "instructif"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Instruktiv"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "instruktívnyj padéž",
"sense": "Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "инструкти́вный паде́ж"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "instruktív",
"sense": "Case expressing means or instrument used to perform an action",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "инструкти́в"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Instructive case"
],
"word": "instructive"
}
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