They can even be appended with possessive suffixes e.g. Finn. Neither Hungarian nor Finnish make any difference with the genus, although some pronouns do recognize a difference between persons and non-humans, like Finn. Personal pronouns are similar, Finn. Especially, in Hungarian and in Vogul the numerals resemble each other. One of the typicalities to all Finno-Ugric languages is that they use nouns in singular after a numeral.
Words consist of either back or front vowels.
Later development in Finno-Ugric languages has slightly violated this harmony because of loan words, but in suffixes it still prevails, words with back vowels append endings or affixes with back vowels and those with front vowels correspondingly with front vowel suffixes, e.g. Finn. A Finnish speaker, even though he does not understand Hungarian, or vice versa, a Hungarian speaker with no knowledge about Finnish, is charmed by the fact that both in Hungarian and in Finnish the vowels and consonants are evenly distributed, in contrast with Slavic or Germanic languages in which heavily packed groups of consonants could be met. Menyem adott vajat. Although the number of common Finno-Ugric words is rather small in Hungarian, they are used in everyday language relatively more often, because the way to derive new words was and is based on the same ancient principle in Hungarian as well as in Finnish. This is not influenced by the large number of words loaned from other languages.