-jaink
Appearance
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]-ja (possessive suffix) + -i (possessive plural) + -nk (first-person plural personal suffix)
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-jaink
- (possessive suffix) our ...-s (first-person plural, multiple possessions)
- pad (“bench”) → a padjaink (“our benches”)
- kocsi (“car”) → a kocsijaink (“our cars”)
Usage notes
[edit]- (possessive suffix) Variants:
- -ink is added to words ending in a vowel except -i. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
- -aink is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -eink is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -jaink is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant or the vowel -i
- -jeink is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant or the vowel -i