Expressing ownership in Hungarian

Hungarian has no word for my.  Instead, it has a suffix, -m, which one attaches to the noun in question:

• autó (car) -> autóm (my car)
• szem (eye) -> szemem (my eye)

Of course there are other suffixes for your, his, our, etc.

• fej (head) -> fejed (your head)
• hajó (ship) -> hajója (his ship)
• ház (house) -> házonk (our house)

Summary:

English	suffix	example	variant suffixes
my	-m	autóm	-om, -em, -öm
thy	-d	autód	-od, -ed, -öd
his/her/its	-ja	autója	-a, -e, -je
our	-nk	autónk	-unk, -ünk
your	-tok	autótok	-tek, -tök, -otok, -etek, -ötök
their	-juk	autójuk	-uk, -ük, -jük

Note: if you look at this table you can see that the suffixes for the plural persons are clearly just the suffixes for the singular persons + -k (the plural morpheme in Hungarian).

At first, it seems like a strange way of indicating possession, but once you get the hang of it, it feels logical and satisfying.

Other languages do this too, including Turkish, Finnish, Farsi and the Semitic Languages.

• Turkish: araba (car) -> arabam (my car), araban (your car), arabamiz (our car)
• Arabic: bayt (house) -> baytī (my house), baytunā (our house), baytuka (your house, male owner), baytuki (your house, female owner)