-uk

• IPA^(key): [uk]
• Rhymes: -uk

-uk

2. (possessive suffix) their (third-person plural, single possession)

   ház (“house”) → a házuk (“their house”)

3. (personal-pronoun suffix) of them (appended to a numeral or a pronoun)

   három (“three”) → hármuk (“the three of them”)

   másik (“other”) → másikuk (“the other (of them)”)

   Az egyikük nappal alszik, a másikuk éjszaka. ― One of them sleeps during the day, the other at night.

• (possessive suffix) Variants:

  -uk is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎ház (“house”) + ‎-uk → ‎házuk (“their house”)

  -ük is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎gyerek (“child”) + ‎-ük → ‎gyerekük (“their child”)

  -juk is added to back-vowel words ending either in a consonant or a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-.

  ‎kar (“arm”) + ‎-juk → ‎karjuk (“their arms”)

  ‎hajó (“ship”) + ‎-juk → ‎hajójuk (“their ship”)

  ‎alma (“apple”) + ‎-juk → ‎almájuk (“their apple”)

  -jük is added to front-vowel words ending either in a consonant or a vowel. Final -e changes to -é-.

  ‎kert (“garden”) + ‎-jük → ‎kertjük (“their garden”)

  ‎érme (“coin”) + ‎-jük → ‎érméjük (“their coin”)

• (personal-pronoun suffix) Variants:

  -uk is added to back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  három (“three”) → hármuk (“the three of them”)

  -ük is added to front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  négy (“four”) → négyük (“the four of them”)

  -juk is added to back-vowel words ending either in a consonant or a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-.

  -jük is added to front-vowel words ending either in a consonant or a vowel. Final -e changes to -é-.

  kettő (“two”) → kettőjük (“the two of them”)

  -ójuk is a variant of -uk

  három (“three”) → hármójuk (“the three of them”)

  -őjük is a variant of -ük

  négy (“four”) → négyőjük (“the four of them”)

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ukъ.

• IPA^(key): /uk/
• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

-uk m pers or m animal or m inan

1. (now Suwałki, Eastern Lublin, Northern Borderlands, Southern Borderlands) Forms nouns, especially surnames

   ‎Andrzejek + ‎-uk → ‎Andrzejczuk

   ‎Wilno + ‎-uk → ‎wilniuk

Inanimate:

Animal:

Personal:

• IPA^(key): /uk/

-uk

1. Form of -ik after the vowels O / U.

   ‎sol- (“to lose color, to wither”) + ‎-uk → ‎soluk (“pale,faded”)