Appendix:Hungarian words with an alternating final vowel

Words with an alternating final vowel (Hungarian ) change their word-final vowel ' (sometimes ') to ' and ' to  in their third-person possessive forms and sometimes in other forms as well, such as before the adjective-forming and, as well as the verb-forming.

Many of these variants (though not all) are archaic.

If the possessive denotes ownership rather than inalienable possession (body part or familial relation), the regular possessive is normally preferred: versus.

Alternation still in use
Some more terms expressing spatial relations, typically with possessive suffixes:

These words are distinguished from words with a fleeting final vowel, where the final vowel element is part of the suffix.

Place names
They are retained today chiefly in surnames and certain set phrases: