Talk:eens in de zoveel tijd

RFD discussion: April–May 2021
Dutch. SOP, much less lexicalised than the English equivalent. One could use eens in + [article] + [time period] quite productively: eens in de drie seconden, eens in het jaar, eens in de vijf maanden, eens in een millennium, eens in het trimester. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  15:11, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
 * There are other uses of in de zoveel tijd (een keer in de zoveel tijd, eenmaal in de zoveel tijd), and even with elision of the count (In de zoveel tijd wordt er zand in de Dassenplas gelost.) There is also the use of een op de zoveel, with the same indeterminate use of zoveel. Yet, given the current senses provided for, it does not seems fully transparent to me. Perhaps we need an extra sense or usage note. It reminds me of x-aantal, for which we have no entry yet. Are the people who use such indeterminate terms the same as who profess ? --Lambiam 16:02, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think should have a separate definition for an indeterminate number. The current definitions should probably be merged, they do not seem distinct. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  16:46, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Yet another formulation, using instead of in de: eens per zoveel weken/maanden/jaar. It doesn’t even have to be a time period: [één arbeidsplaats] per zoveel meter.  --Lambiam 11:25, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, provided has an entry for the sense . Since it is always standing in for a numeral, I wonder if the PoS shouldn’t perhaps be “Numeral”.  is classified as a Determiner, but its uses are not quite comparable; for zoveel, it appears to always stand in for the X in a ratio 1 : X.  --Lambiam 11:25, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, SoP and all of its parts can be replaced with other expressions, as argued above. Anyway, with "tijd" I wouldn't even say "in" but "om de zoveel tijd". MuDavid 栘𩿠 (talk) 01:23, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * RFD-deleted. Imetsia (talk) 14:52, 2 May 2021 (UTC)