-om

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Chuukese

Pronunciation

Suffix

-om

  1. (added to possessive nouns) your
Chuukese possessive determiners
Small objects, concepts Large objects, living things Suffix
Singular First person ai nei -ei
Second person omw, om noum -om
Third person an noun -an
Plural First person äm (exclusive)
ach (inclusive)		 nöu̇m (exclusive)
nöüch (inclusive)		 -em (exclusive)
-ach (inclusive)
Second person ämi, ami noumi -emi
Third person ar nour -er

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Suffix

-om

  1. -quantity (correlative ending of quantity)

Derived terms

  • ĉiom (“all ”)
  • iom (“some”)
  • kiom (“how many, how much”)
  • neniom (“none”)
  • (nonce) aliom (“another amount”)
  • tiom (“that many, that much”)

German

Pronunciation

Suffix

-om

  1. -oma

Derived terms

German terms suffixed with -om

Hungarian

Etymology

From -o- (linking vowel) +‎ -m (personal suffix).

Pronunciation

Suffix

-om

  2. (personal suffix, indefinite conjugation) Forms the indefinite first-person singular present indicative of -ik verbs.
    ‎alszik (“to sleep”) + ‎-om → ‎alszom (“I sleep, I am sleeping”)
  4. (personal suffix, definite conjugation) Forms the definite first-person singular present indicative of verbs.
    ‎lát (“to see”) + ‎-om → ‎látom (“I see ”)
  6. (possessive suffix) my (first-person singular, single possession)
    ‎kor (“age”) + ‎-om → ‎korom (“my age”)

Usage notes

    Present tense indefinite – personal suffixes
Person Back
    vowel     		Front vowel
unrounded   rounded  
én 1st person singular -ok -ek -ök
-ik verbs (optional) -om -em -öm
te 2nd person singular -sz
after two consonants or a long vowel + t -asz -esz
after s, sz, z, dz -ol -el -öl
ő
maga
ön 		3rd person singular –
-ik verbs -ik
mi 1st person plural -unk -ünk
ti 2nd person plural -tok -tek -tök
after two consonants or a long vowel + t -otok -etek -ötök
ők
maguk
önök 		3rd person plural -nak -nek
after two consonants or a long vowel + t -anak -enek
See also: present-tense definite-object suffixes and
second-person-object suffixes for informal addressing.
  • (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 may be added to back-vowel -ik verbs
    -em may be added to unrounded front-vowel -ik verbs
    -öm may be added to rounded front-vowel -ik verbs
    Present tense definite – personal endings
Person Back vowel Front vowel
unrounded   rounded  
én 1st person singular -om -em -öm
te 2nd person singular -od -ed -öd
ő
maga
ön 		3rd person singular or
formal 2nd person singular 		-ja -i
mi 1st person plural -juk -jük
ti 2nd person plural -játok -itek
ők
maguk
önök 		3rd person plural or
formal 2nd person plural 		-ják -ik
See also: present-tense indefinite-object suffixes and
second-person-object suffixes for informal addressing.
  • (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-.
    ‎hajó (“boat”) + ‎-m → ‎a hajóm (“my boat”)
    ‎kocsi (“car”) + ‎-m → ‎a kocsim (“my car”)
    ‎palota (“palace”) + ‎-m → ‎a palotám (“my palace”)
    ‎érme (“coin”) + ‎-m → ‎az érmém (“my coin”)
    -am is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
    ‎ház (“house”) + ‎-am → ‎a házam (“my house”)
    -om is added to the other back-vowel words ending in a consonant
    ‎kor (“age”) + ‎-om → ‎a korom (“my age”)
    -em is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant
    ‎kert (“garden”) + ‎-em → ‎a kertem (“my garden”)
    ‎fül (“ear”) + ‎-em → ‎a fülem (“my ear”)
    -öm is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
    ‎öröm (“joy”) + ‎-öm → ‎az örömöm (“my joy”)

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 -omul —
inessive -omban —
superessive -omon —
adessive -omnál —
illative -omba —
sublative -omra —
allative -omhoz —
elative -omból —
delative -omról —
ablative -omtól —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		-omé —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		-oméi —

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Suffix

-om

  1. (archaic or dialectal)(nonstandard) Used to form dative case of plural definite nouns

Russenorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown. Was used in the same way in Solombala pidgin verbs, see -омъ (-om).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʊm/, /um/, /əm/, /ɔm/

Suffix

-om

  1. an ending added to almost every verb in any verb tense (because Russenorsk almost does not have any occurrences of verb conjugation)
  2. an ending in fixed expressions with fossilized case ending derived from Russian -омъ (-om) (and, perhaps, Norwegian dialectal dative plural ending -om). See stoberi motrom.

Welsh

Pronunciation

Suffix

-om

  1. (literary) verb suffix for the first-person plural present subjunctive

Derived terms

Category Welsh terms suffixed with -om not found
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia