Possessive (and genitive) suffix: · …-'s, of … (third-person singular, single possession) · …-s’, of …-s (third-person plural, single possession)
köken: From the Proto-Uralic *sᴕ̈ third-person personal pronoun of the ancestor language after it was appended to the word of possession. According to some linguists this attachment happened in the Proto-Uralic era, while others think it happened much later when the Hungarian language became independent.
Egy évszázada / két éve / egy órája / sok/hosszú ideje ment el.
Egy évszázada / két éve / egy órája / sok/hosszú ideje várunk rád.
jó (jav-) (“the greater/better part”) → a java még hátravan (“the best/bulk is yet to come”, literally “its best/bulk is…”)
his, its (with reference to a masculine noun; triggers soft mutation of following consonant) · her, its (with reference to a feminine noun; triggers aspirate mutation of following consonant and h-prothesis of a following vowel)
köken: From Middle Welsh y, from Proto-Brythonic *eið, from Proto-Celtic *esyo m and *esyās f; compare Old Irish a (“his, her, its, their”) and Sanskrit अ॒स्य (asyá, “his, its”) and अ॒स्यास् (asyā́s, “her”).
Gwelir y thema dro ar ôl tro yn ei gerddi a’i emynau.
Gwelir y thema dro ar ôl tro yn ei cherddi a’i hemynau.