Tömegem

tömegem is a Hungarian possessive form of the noun tömeg, meaning my mass or my bulk. It denotes the amount of matter belonging to the speaker or the mass of a body, and is used primarily in technical, scientific, or mathematical contexts, as well as occasionally in metaphorical language. The form tömegem is built from the base tömeg with the first-person singular possessive suffix -em, following standard Hungarian vowel harmony. The corresponding third-person possessive form is tömege (“his/her/its mass”).

In everyday speech, speakers more often refer to weight rather than mass, using words like súlyom or testtömegem for body mass. Tömegem appears more commonly in formal or written contexts—for example in notes about measurements, physical calculations, or theoretical discussions about the mass of objects in a model. The construction demonstrates typical Hungarian possessive morphology: tömeg (mass) → tömegem (my mass), and tömege (his/her/its mass).

Usage notes: because tömegem can appear unusual in casual conversation, it is generally substituted by more natural phrases such as az én testtömegem or a saját tömegem in contexts emphasizing body mass, or simply a személyes tömeg/mass in technical writing. The noun tömeg itself also carries meanings like crowd or bulk, which are distinct from its literal physical mass.

See also: tömeg, testtömeg, súly, mass in physics.