Instrumental-comitative case

Instrumental-comitative case

This case in Hungarian language contains the Instrumental case and the Comitative case at the same time. It is similar to the English preposition "with".It may refer to the means of the action (with a knife, fork; by tram etc.) and to the person in whose company the action is carried out (with his family etc.), as well as other meanings (temporal, modal etc.).


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