Number of pronominal cases (Hungarian)

14PronCases The pronominal case system has 14 cases.



personal pronoun

Nom.

én ‘I’

ő ‘he/she/it’

Acc.

engem(et)

ő-t

Dat.

nekem

neki

Ine.

bennem

benne

Elat.

belőlem

belőle

Ill.

belém

belé

Ade.

nálam

nála

Abl.

tőlem

tőle

All.

hozzám

hozzá

Sup.

rajtam

rajta

Del.

rólam

róla

Sub.

rám

Com-Inst.

velem

vele

Caus-Fin.

értem

érte


In Hungarian, personal pronouns have 14 cases (cf. Kenesei et al. 1998: 192, 270‒271). Except for the nominative and the accusative, case-marked personal pronouns are formed by attaching person affixes to the case­ marking suffixes used as stems. The nominative form of the personal pronoun can extend these compositional forms in an emphatic function: e.g. tőlem ‘from me’ ­ éntőlem ‘from ME’ (D. Mátai 2003a: 212‒216).

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás