A conspicuous use of distributive numbers is in arity or adicity, to indicate how many parameters a function takes.
In Japanese numerals, distributive forms are formed regularly from a cardinal number, a counter word, and the suffix -zutsu (ずつ), as in hitori-zutsu (一人ずつ, one person at a time, one person each).
In Cebuano, some distributive forms undergo metathesis or syncope, such as tagsa (from tag-usa), tagurha (from tagduha), tagutlo (from tagtulo), and tagilma (from taglima).
In Turkish, one of the -ar/-er suffixes (chosen according to vowel harmony) is added to the end of a cardinal numeral, as in "birer" (one of each) and "dokuzar" (nine of each).
If the numeral ends with a vowel, a letter ş comes to the middle; as in "ikişer" (two of each) and "altışar" (six of each).