MURAT YILDIRIM IN THE ARABIC MAGAZINES TURKISH LEARNER VOL. 2 | Page 14

Examples :-

House = ev

My house --> ben-im ev-im --> evim (personal pronoun is implied)

Your house --> sen-in ev-in --> evin

His's/her's/its's house --> o-n-in ev-i --> onun evi --> evi

Our house --> biz-im ev-imiz --> evimiz

Your house --> siz-in ev-iniz --> eviniz

Their house --> onlar-n ev-leri --> evleri

Car = araba

My car --> ben-im araba-m --> arabam (the suffix -im becomes -m when added after a vowel, since two vowels don´t come together in Turkish)

Your car --> sen-in araba-n --> araban

His's/her's/its's car --> o-n-in araba-s- --> onun arabas --> arabas (Instead of dropping one vowel, here the fusion consonant ´s´ is added between vowels since the suffix is only a single vowel.)

Our car --> biz-im araba-mz --> arabamz

Your car --> siz-in araba-nz --> arabanz

Their car --> onlar-n araba-lar --> arabalar

•For nouns other than these pronouns, always the third person form is used.

Gizem´s house --> Gizem´in evi

Gizem´s car --> Gizem´in arabas

My mother´s house --> Annemin evi