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Person[psor]: possessor’s person

Person[psor] is possessor’s person, marked e.g. on Hungarian nouns. These noun forms would be translated to English as possessive pronoun + noun.

This layered feature is conveniently used for possessive inflections of nouns, although nouns normally do not have a Person feature, meaning that no other layers are needed. Nevertheless, the possessive morphology typically also includes Number, which must be multi-layered on nouns, and we thus have Person[psor] together with Number[psor].

This layered feature is normally not used with possessive pronouns. They traditionally have just simple Person. (And in some languages, possessive pronouns are actually identical to personal pronouns in the genitive case.)

1: first person possessor

Examples: [hu] kutya = dog; kutyám = my dog; kutyánk = our dog.

2: second person possessor

Examples: [hu] kutya = dog; kutyád = your.Sing dog; kutyátok = your.Plur dog.

3: third person possessor

Examples: [hu] kutya = dog; kutyája = his/her/its dog; kutyájuk = their dog.