Adreslerine

Adreslerine is a Turkish word formed from adres (address) with several suffixes. It expresses a meaning related to direction or destination involving ownership: specifically, to their addresses. Grammatically, it is the combination of plural, possessive, and dative suffixes, illustrating Turkish’s agglutinative structure.

Morphology and form: adres takes the plural suffix -ler to become adresler (addresses). The possessive suffix for third person plural is -leri, which attaches to adresler to yield adresleri (their addresses). The dative suffix -e attaches after the possessive, producing adreslerine, which means “to their addresses” or, depending on context, “to the addresses of them.” The order is base + plural + possessive + dative, and vowel harmony governs the actual vowels in the suffixes.

Usage: adreslerine typically appears as an indirect object or destination. Examples:

- Mektubu adreslerine gönderdim. (“I sent the letter to their addresses.”)

- Adreslerine bakmamız gerekiyor. (“We need to look at their addresses.”)

Note that without the possessive -leri, adreslere would mean “to addresses,” while adreslerini would mean “their addresses” as a direct object.

Etymology and related forms: adres is borrowed from French adresse and entered Turkish via historical contact with Western European languages. Related forms include adres (singular), adresler (addresses), adreslerine (to their addresses), and other inflected variants used for different cases and possessive persons.