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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-uk
- (possessive suffix) their (third-person plural, single possession)
- ház (“house”) → a házuk (“their house”)
- (personal-pronoun suffix) of them (appended to a numeral or a pronoun)
- három (“three”) → hármuk (“the three of them”)
- másik (“other”) → másikuk (“the other (of them)”)
- Az egyikük nappal alszik, a másikuk éjszaka. ― One of them sleeps during the day, the other at night.
Usage notes
- (possessive suffix) Variants:
- -uk is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- ház (“house”) + -uk → házuk (“their house”)
- -ük is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- gyerek (“child”) + -ük → gyerekük (“their child”)
- -juk is added to back-vowel words ending either in a consonant or a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-.
- kar (“arm”) + -juk → karjuk (“their arms”)
- hajó (“ship”) + -juk → hajójuk (“their ship”)
- alma (“apple”) + -juk → almájuk (“their apple”)
- -jük is added to front-vowel words ending either in a consonant or a vowel. Final -e changes to -é-.
- kert (“garden”) + -jük → kertjük (“their garden”)
- érme (“coin”) + -jük → érméjük (“their coin”)
- (personal-pronoun suffix) Variants:
- -uk is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- három (“three”) → hármuk (“the three of them”)
- -ük is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- négy (“four”) → négyük (“the four of them”)
- -juk is added to back-vowel words ending either in a consonant or a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-.
- -jük is added to front-vowel words ending either in a consonant or a vowel. Final -e changes to -é-.
- kettő (“two”) → kettőjük (“the two of them”)
- -ójuk is a variant of -uk
- három (“three”) → hármójuk (“the three of them”)
- -őjük is a variant of -ük
- négy (“four”) → négyőjük (“the four of them”)
Personal-pronoun suffixes
Declension
See also
Turkish
preceding vowel
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A / I
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E / İ
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O / U
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Ö / Ü
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-ık
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-ik
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-uk
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-ük
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Pronunciation
Suffix
-uk
- Form of -ık after the vowels O / U.
- sol- (“to lose color, to wither”) + -uk → soluk (“pale,faded”)