Birliklarining

Birliklarining is a form found in Turkic languages, including Turkish and Uzbek, that functions as a genitive possessive construction for a plural noun derived from the root word birlik, meaning union or association. The base word birlik denotes a cooperative or organized group, and adding a plural suffix yields birlikler, meaning unions or associations. The final suffix in birliklarining marks possession by a third-person plural subject, indicating “their unions” or “the unions of them,” depending on the syntactic role in a sentence.

Morphology and formation are typical of agglutinative Turkic languages, which attach multiple suffixes to a stem to express grammatical relations. In this case, the sequence conveys number (plural) and possession or attribution to multiple actors. The exact spellings of this form can vary with orthography and dialect, and, in standard Turkish, closely corresponding constructions may appear as birliklerinin or birliklerinin depending on the intended possessive and case.

Usage of birliklarining arises in discussions about organizations, associations, or unions that belong to or are controlled by multiple parties. It is a linguistic example of how Turkic languages stack suffixes to convey complex relationships within a single word, without relying on separate prepositions.

See also Turkic languages; Turkish grammar; Turkic morphology; possessive suffixes.