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-om

-om

See also: Appendix:Variations of "om"

Chuukese

Suffix

-om

  1. (added to possessive nouns) your

Related terms


Esperanto

Etymology

Originally -on, it was changed to -om after the publication of Esperanto to avoid confusion with the nominal accusative -o-n.

Suffix

-om

  1. -quantity (correlative ending of quantity)

Derived terms


Hungarian

Etymology

-o- + -m

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [om]

Suffix

-om

  1. (personal suffix, indefinite conjugation) Used to form the first-person singular present tense of -ik verbs (indicative mood, indefinite conjugation).
    alszik (to sleep)alszom (I sleep, I am sleeping)
  2. (personal suffix, definite conjugation) Used to form the first-person singular present tense of verbs (indicative mood, definite conjugation).
    gondol (to think)gondolom (I think)
  3. (possessive suffix) my (first-person singular, single possession)
    kor (age)a korom (my age)

Declension

(possessive suffix):

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative -om
accusative -omat
dative -omnak
instrumental -ommal
causal-final -omért
translative -ommá
terminative -omig
essive-formal -omként
essive-modal
inessive -omban
superessive -omon
adessive -omnál
illative -omba
sublative -omra
allative -omhoz
elative -omból
delative -omról
ablative -omtól

Usage notes

  • (personal suffix) Variants:
    -ok is added to back vowel verbs
    -ek is added to unrounded front vowel verbs
    -ök is added to rounded front vowel verbs
    -om is added to back vowel -ik verbs
    -em is added to unrounded front vowel -ik verbs
    -öm is added to rounded front vowel -ik verbs
  • (personal suffix, definite conjugation) Variants:
    -om is added to back vowel verbs
    -em is added to unrounded front vowel verbs
    -öm is added to rounded front vowel verbs
  • (possessive suffix) Variants:
    -m is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
    -om is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant
    -am is added to other back vowel words ending in a consonant
    -em is added to unrounded front vowel words ending in a consonant
    -öm is added to rounded front vowel words ending in a consonant

See also

  • Category:Hungarian noun forms
  • Category:Hungarian verb forms
  • Appendix:Hungarian possessive suffixes