Category:Hungarian nouns with two ways to form the possessive

This category collects Hungarian nouns that have two different kinds of possessive, according to situation or dialect.

When there is both a stem-changing and a non-stem-changing variant, the one with stem change is mostly used for an "immediate" possession such as a room having a door, a cow having a calf, a father having a son, etc. (cf. ajtó, borjú, fiú). For not so direct possessions, usually the variant without stem change is used, such as a farmer having a calf. The usage varies with dialects and words. Some dialects prefer the stem-changing variant, some do not. With some words the choice is arbitrary and the two types are interchangable; in these cases, the variant without -j is usually more standard or classic and the one with -j is more modern or casual (e.g. in the case of karrier[j]e, sivatag[j]a). On the other hand, there are some (few) words where the two forms distinguish two different (unrelated) senses, e.g. kara (“his/her faculty”) and karja (“his/her arm”), both from kar.