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Instrumental-comitative case

In grammar, the instrumental-comitative case combines the instrumental case and the comitative case, functioning in a similar way to the English preposition "with". It may indicate the means of the action and the person in whose company the action is carried out, as well as other meanings such as the temporal or the modal.

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In grammar, the instrumental-comitative case combines the instrumental case and the comitative case, functioning in a similar way to the English preposition "with". It may indicate the means of the action (for example, "with a knife", "using a fork", "by tram") and the person in whose company the action is carried out (for example, "with his family"), as well as other meanings such as the temporal or the modal.

The instrumental-comitative case exists in Hungarian,1 Selkup, and Ubykh languages.

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  1. Stolz, Thomas; Stroh, Cornelia; Urdze, Aina (2006). On Comitatives and Related Categories. Mouton de Gruyter. p. 10. ISBN 978-3-11-018587-4.