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a grammatical case found in some languages that denotes distribution or individual instances of a noun, indicating that something is done or possessed by each member of a group separately
What is the "distributive case"?
The distributive case is a grammatical case used to indicate the distribution of something or how an action is applied to individuals or objects separately. It often conveys the idea of "each" or "per" in relation to an action or object. This case is found in some languages, such as Hungarian, where it changes the form of nouns to express this meaning. For example, in Hungarian, the word for "day" is "nap," and in the distributive case, it becomes "naponta," meaning "each day" or "per day." The distributive case helps clarify how an action is spread across multiple items or individuals.
