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Meaning of -m | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR A2

Definitions

  1. my (first-person singular, single possession)
    morpheme, possessive, suffix
  2. Added to a verb (or rarely to a noun) to form a noun. No longer productive in this sense.
    morpheme, obsolete
  3. First-person singular personal suffix:
    morpheme, personal, suffix
  4. 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
  5. No longer productive in this sense.
    morpheme, obsolete
  6. Indefinite forms of -ik verbs.
    morpheme, personal, suffix
  7. Forming conjugated infinitives (here: “for me to do something”).
    morpheme, personal, suffix
  8. 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.

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