The multiplicative case ( abbreviated or ) is a

grammatical case A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and Numeral (linguistics), numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a Nominal group (functional grammar), n ...

used for marking ''a number of something'' ("three times"). The case is found in the

Hungarian language Hungarian, or Magyar (, ), is an Ugric language of the Uralic language family spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighboring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Out ...

, for example ''nyolc'' (eight), ''nyolcszor'' (eight times), however it is not considered a real case in modern Hungarian linguistics because of its adverb-forming nature. The case appears also in Finnish as an adverbial (adverb-forming) case. Used with a

cardinal number In mathematics, a cardinal number, or cardinal for short, is what is commonly called the number of elements of a set. In the case of a finite set, its cardinal number, or cardinality is therefore a natural number. For dealing with the cas ...

it denotes the number of actions; for example, ''viisi'' (five) -> ''viidesti'' (five times). Used with adjectives it refers to the mean of the action, corresponding the English suffix ''-ly'': ''kaunis'' (beautiful) -> ''kauniisti'' (beautifully). It is also used with a small number of nouns: ''leikki'' (play) -> ''leikisti'' ("just kidding", "not really"). In addition, it acts as an intensifier when used with a swearword: ''piru'' -> ''pirusti''.

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