Examples of the possessive as indicated in the first person are given below:
| My father | A-mak′ |
| My dog | A-suk′ |
| My hand | Li-mak′ |
| Our father | A-ma′-ta |
| Our dog | A-su′-ta |
| Our house | A-fong′-ta |
Other examples of the possessive are not at hand, but these given indicate that, as in most Malay dialects, a noun with a possessive suffix is one form of the possessive.
Scheerer[3] gives the possessive suffixes of the Benguet Igorot as follows:
| My | k, after a, i, o, and u, otherwise ’ko |
| Thy | } m, after a, i, o, and u, otherwise’mo |
| Your | |
| His | } io |
| Her | |
| Our (inc.) | ’tayo |
| Our (exc.) | ’me |
| Your | ’dio |
| Their | ’cha or ’ra |
These possessive suffixes in the Benguet Igorot language are the same, according to Scheerer, as the suffixes used in verbal formation.
The verbal suffixes of the Bontoc Igorot are very similar to those of the Benguet. It is therefore probable that the possessive suffixes are also very similar.
It is interesting to note that in the Chamorro language of Guam the possessive suffixes for the first person correspond to those of the Igorot—my is ko and our is ta.