grammar In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structure, structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clause (linguistics), clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraint ...

, the temporal case (or Temporalis abbreviated ) is a

grammatical case A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and Numeral (linguistics), numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In vari ...

used to indicate a time. In the

Hungarian language Hungarian () is an Uralic language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by Hungarian ...

its suffix is ''-kor''. For example: ''hétkor'' "at seven" or ''hét órakor'' "at seven o'clock", ''éjfélkor'' "at midnight", ''karácsonykor'' "at Christmas". This is one of the few suffixes in Hungarian to which rules of

vowel harmony In phonology, vowel harmony is an Assimilation (linguistics), assimilatory process in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – have to be members of the same natural class (thus "in harmony"). Vowel harmony is t ...

do not apply. In Finnish its suffix is ''-lloin / -llöin''. For example: ''milloin'' - when?; ''jolloin'' - when (relative pronoun); ''tällöin'' - at this time; ''silloin'' - then; ''tuolloin'' - at that time. In Russian the function of temporal case is assumed by

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, e.g. ''утр-ом'' (base form is ''утро'') - in the morning, ''дн-ём'' (base form is ''день'') - in the daytime/in the afternoon, ''вечер-ом'' (base form is ''вечер'') - at night/in the evening, ''ночь-ю'' (base form is ''ночь'') - at nighttime/in the night.

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