Meaning of -m | Babel Free
Definitions
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my (first-person singular, single possession) morpheme, possessive, suffix
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Added to a verb (or rarely to a noun) to form a noun. No longer productive in this sense. morpheme, obsolete
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First-person singular personal suffix: morpheme, personal, suffix
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Definite forms of transitive verbs (followed by a linking vowel in indicative present/past and subjunctive moods; with no linking vowel in conditional mood). morpheme, personal, suffix
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No longer productive in this sense. morpheme, obsolete
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Indefinite forms of -ik verbs. morpheme, personal, suffix
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Forming conjugated infinitives (here: “for me to do something”). morpheme, personal, suffix
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Declined and postpositional forms of the first-person personal pronoun én (“I”). morpheme, personal, suffix
Equivalents
English
my
Examples
“tud (“to know”) → tudom, tudtam, tudjam, tudnám (“I know / knew / should know / would know it”)”
“kér (“to ask [for sth]”) → kérem, kértem, kérjem, kérném (“I ask / asked / should ask / would ask for it”)”
“alszik (“to sleep”) + -m → alszom (“I sleep”)”
“tanulni (“to study”) + -m → tanulnom kell (“I need to study”, literally “for_me_to_study is_necessary”)”
“Csak kérnem kell.”
All I have to do is ask [for it].
“-ban/-ben (“in”) + -m → bennem (“in me”)”
“elé (“in front of”) + -m → elém (“in front of me”)”
“öröm, álom, folyam”
“alom, orom, hím”
“élemedett (“elderly”)”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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