-om

See also: Appendix:Variations of "om"

Chuukese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊm/

Suffix

-om

1. (added to possessive nouns) your

Related terms

Chuukese possessive determiners

		Small objects, concepts	Large objects, living things	Suffix
Singular	First person	ai	nei	-ei
	Second person	omw, om	noum	-om
	Third person	an	noun	-an
Plural	First person	äm (exclusive) ach (inclusive)	nöu̇m (exclusive) nöüch (inclusive)	-em (exclusive) -ach (inclusive)
	Second person	ämi, ami	noumi	-emi
	Third person	ar	nour	-er

Esperanto

Etymology

Originally -on, it was changed to -om after the publication of Esperanto to avoid confusion with the nominal accusative -o-n.

Pronunciation

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Suffix

-om

1. -quantity (correlative ending of quantity)

Derived terms

• ĉiom (“all [of something]”)
• iom (“some”)
• kiom (“how many, how much”)
• neniom (“none”)
• (nonce) aliom (“another amount”)
• tiom (“that many, that much”)

 

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-oːm/

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Suffix

-om

1. -oma

Derived terms

German terms suffixed with -om

Hungarian

Etymology

From -o- (linking vowel) +‎ -m (personal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [om]
• Rhymes: -om

Suffix

-om

2. (personal suffix, indefinite conjugation) Forms the indefinite first-person singular present indicative of -ik verbs.

   ‎alszik (“to sleep”) + ‎-om → ‎alszom (“I' sleep, I am sleeping”)

4. (personal suffix, definite conjugation) Forms the definite first-person singular present indicative of verbs.

   ‎lát (“to see”) + ‎-om → ‎látom (“I see [him/her/it/them]”)

6. (possessive suffix) my (first-person singular, single possession)

   ‎kor (“age”) + ‎-om → ‎korom (“my age”)

Usage notes

    Present tense indefinite – personal suffixes

Person		Back     vowel	Front vowel
			unrounded	rounded
én	1st person singular	-ok	-ek	-ök
	-ik verbs (optional)	-om	-em	-öm
te	2nd person singular	-sz
	after two consonants or a long vowel + t	-asz	-esz
	after s, sz, z, dz	-ol	-el	-öl
ő maga ön	3rd person singular	–
	-ik verbs	-ik
mi	1st person plural	-unk	-ünk
ti	2nd person plural	-tok	-tek	-tök
	after two consonants or a long vowel + t	-otok	-etek	-ötök
ők maguk önök	3rd person plural	-nak	-nek
	after two consonants or a long vowel + t	-anak	-enek
See also: present-tense definite-object suffixes and second-person-object suffixes for informal addressing.

• (personal suffix) Variants:

  -ok is added to back-vowel verbs

  -ek is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs

  -ök is added to rounded front-vowel verbs

  -om may be added to back-vowel -ik verbs

  -em may be added to unrounded front-vowel -ik verbs

  -öm may be added to rounded front-vowel -ik verbs

    Present tense definite – personal endings

Person		Back vowel	Front vowel
			unrounded	rounded
én	1st person singular	-om	-em	-öm
te	2nd person singular	-od	-ed	-öd
ő maga ön	3rd person singular or formal 2nd person singular	-ja	-i
mi	1st person plural	-juk	-jük
ti	2nd person plural	-játok	-itek
ők maguk önök	3rd person plural or formal 2nd person plural	-ják	-ik
See also: present-tense indefinite-object suffixes and second-person-object suffixes for informal addressing.

• (personal suffix, definite conjugation) Variants:

  -om is added to back-vowel verbs

  -em is added to unrounded front-vowel verbs

  -öm is added to rounded front-vowel verbs

• (possessive suffix) Variants:

  -m is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.

  ‎hajó (“boat”) + ‎-m → ‎a hajóm (“my boat”)

  ‎kocsi (“car”) + ‎-m → ‎a kocsim (“my car”)

  ‎palota (“palace”) + ‎-m → ‎a palotám (“my palace”)

  ‎érme (“coin”) + ‎-m → ‎az érmém (“my coin”)

  -am is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎ház (“house”) + ‎-am → ‎a házam (“my house”)

  -om is added to the other back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎kor (“age”) + ‎-om → ‎a korom (“my age”)

  -em is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎kert (“garden”) + ‎-em → ‎a kertem (“my garden”)

  ‎fül (“ear”) + ‎-em → ‎a fülem (“my ear”)

  -öm is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎öröm (“joy”) + ‎-öm → ‎az örömöm (“my joy”)

Declension

(possessive suffix):

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	-om	—
accusative	-omat	—
dative	-omnak	—
instrumental	-ommal	—
causal-final	-omért	—
translative	-ommá	—
terminative	-omig	—
essive-formal	-omként	—
essive-modal	-omul	—
inessive	-omban	—
superessive	-omon	—
adessive	-omnál	—
illative	-omba	—
sublative	-omra	—
allative	-omhoz	—
elative	-omból	—
delative	-omról	—
ablative	-omtól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	-omé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	-oméi	—

See also

• Category:Hungarian noun forms
• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian possessive suffixes

Norwegian Nynorsk

Suffix

-om

1. (archaic or dialectal)(nonstandard) Used to form dative case of plural definite nouns

Russenorsk

Alternative forms

• -um
• -омъ (-om)

Etymology

Unknown. Was used in the same way in Solombala pidgin verbs, see -омъ (-om).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊm/, /um/, /əm/, /ɔm/

Suffix

-om

1. an ending added to almost every verb in any verb tense (because Russenorsk almost does not have any occurrences of verb conjugation)
2. an ending in fixed expressions with fossilized case ending derived from Russian -омъ (-om) (and, perhaps, Norwegian dialectal dative plural ending -om). See stoberi motrom.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔm/

Suffix

-om

1. (literary) verb suffix for the first-person plural present subjunctive

Derived terms

Category Welsh terms suffixed with -om not found