Being a native speaker I never considered the example you mention, but it's definitely weird. To express "I have X" in Hungarian you would say "There is X", but

Being a native speaker I never considered the example you mention, but it's definitely weird. To express "I have X" in Hungarian you would say "There is X", but X has an extra letter 'm', usually with an accent of the letter before it. "There is an apple" = "Van egy alma" "I have an apple" = "Van egy almám" As the article pointed out Hungarian language possibly has origins in Kazahstan and Mongolia, there is some similarity in the names of places to present-day Hungarian words (Alma Ata, Ulan Bator). alma = apple ata (atya) = father bator (bátor) = brave No one is quite sure as proto-Hungarians wandered the steppes and left no written notes. What we know is they spent a lot of time in Levédia, present day Ukraine and Russia by the river Volga. https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%C3%A9dia https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%C3%A9dia (article in hungarian)