That, past or future named period of time or time of an event.
This determiner indicates time, either in the future or past, as follows: 1) If a named period of time is indicated such as a day, week, month, year, name of month or day of week, reference is to at least one time period removed from the present:
Din handi.
That day before yesterday.
Din umālin miyadwan būlan.
That coming second month (from now).
2) If the time of an event is indicated, reference is to any time either past or future (indicated by tense affixation of a following verbal form):
Din nuntamūanta.
That time when we worked.
Indicating past time: din or a variant han din is followed by a word indicating either a named time period or the time of an event:
Han din a'unga' ya impa'engha' an umuy manālop.
(During) that time of my youth I learned how to fish.
Han din ni'buhūlanmih iyUmbūlu ya da'mi na'ameh ti do'olda.
That time when we fought with the people of Cambulo, we were defeated because they were many.
Future time is indicated as follows: 1) din or han din is followed by a verbal form with non-past time inflection:
Nalīgat nin han din puntamūantah ohhandi.
That work of ours the day after tomorrow will perhaps be difficult.
2) Din or han din is followed by umāli, coming and a word indicating a time period:
Din umālin tawon ya wāday būtus hi palahinti.
That coming year there will be a voting for president.
This demonstrative adjective is distributed as follows: 1) din, optionally preceded by a determiner hi, (hidin, -h din), or han din is a constituent of a phrase occurring as a sentence introducer or sentence comment:
Din/hidin/han +din +nadnoy ya do'ol di ulhah Pannal.
That long ago there were many deer in Pannal.
Din/hidin/han +din +naluwahan +di +īwang di natayan w̱ma.
Time when my father died was (during) that time of completion of harvest.
2) Din or han din is a constituent of a phrase occurring as a sentence topic.
Penhod'u din patang ti tungnin.
I enjoyed that planting season because it was cool.
3) Preceded by hi (hidin, -h din following a vowel) din (not han din) is a constituent of a verb phrase filling a time slot:
Do'ol di ulhah din nadnoy.
There were many deer (during) that past long ago.
See sections 7.3.1.2, 7.3.6, 7.25.1.
han din is a stylistic variant of din.
That, person or thing involved in the past; those, people or things involved in the past.
Natoy din manu''u.
Those chickens of mine (that I had before) died.
Distribution of this demonstrative adjective is as follows: 1) A phrase consisting of this demonstrative adjective followed by a word indicating an object or person occurs as a sentence introducer, comment or topic. Din or han din refers to a past time, known to the speaker (and perhaps the hearer), in which an object, person or event was somehow involved. Reference may be to an event expressed in the context; however, this is not necessarily the past event to which din or han din refers, and often there is no contextual event expressed. As a sentence introducer:
Han din nanganupanmi ya limmayaw.
As for that which we chase-hunted, it ran away.
As sentence comment:
Han din hul'ud Innāwan di nangayangdah lāman.
What they used in spearing wild pigs was that spear of Innāwan (involved in the past).
As topic:
Bennoh'u din bāngan w̱ma an bāngah penghāna.
I inherited that pot of Father (involved in the past) which is a pot of long ago.
2) A phrase consisting of a determiner hi1 (variant -h) followed by din (hidin, -h din) and a word indicating a thing or person is a verb phrase constituent filling a referent or place slot:
Mangānaptah din impo''oydan balītu' hidin gubat.
Let us look for that gold (involved in the past) which they hid during the past war.
han din is a stylistic variant of din.