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Thedistributive-temporal of anoun is agrammatical case specifying when and how often something is done.
This case (-nta/-nte) inHungarian can express how often something happens (e.g.havonta "monthly",naponta "daily",telente "every winter",reggelente "every morning"); it can alternate with thedistributive case in words of temporal meaning.
Thisadverb type inFinnish can express that something happens at a frequent point in time (e.g. "on Sundays" issunnuntaisin), or an origin (e.g. "born in" issyntyisin). It is restricted to a small number of adverb stems and nouns, mostly those with the plural formed with an-i- suffix. The ending is-sin.[1]For example, the rootpäivä (day) has the pluralpäivi-, and thus the temporal distributivepäivisin ("during the days").
The temporal distributive case specifies when something is done, in contrast to thedistributive case, which specifies how often something is done, as in regular maintenance. These sentences are a good example:Siivoan päivisin vs.Siivoan päivittäin. The former (temp. dist.) means "I clean by day", implying the cleaning is done in the daytime, whereas the latter (dist.) means "I clean daily", implying that there's no day without cleaning.
If the plural has another form than-i-, eitherjoka (each) or theessive case is used. For example,uusi vuosi (New Year) is eitherjoka uusi vuosi oruusina vuosina, respectively.
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