No. 563 in Slovenian
dneva
"Dneva" means "of the day" or "day's" in English.
In a sentence
Imel sem samo dvanajst ur dneva, preden je padel mrak.
I had only twelve hours of daylight before dusk fell.
As used here, 'dneva' refers to the part of the day when sunlight is present, showing its genitive singular usage for indicating 'of the day (in terms of daylight)'
Do konca dneva moramo dokončati to nalogo.
We must complete this task by the end of the day.
In this sentence, 'dneva' is used in the genitive case to specify a temporal boundary: 'end of the day'.
Spremenil je urnik tečaja sredi dneva.
He changed the course schedule in the middle of the day.
Here, 'dneva' is in the genitive singular form referring to a specific part of the day, 'middle of the day'.
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