Durumunu

Durumunu is a Turkish noun phrase that comes from durum, meaning state or condition, combined with possessive and case markers to form a definite direct object. In Turkish grammar, the form expresses “his/her/its state” when the possessed noun is the object of the verb. The word is not a proper noun but a grammatical construction used in everyday and formal Turkish.

Usage and meaning

Durumunu translates roughly as “his/her/its state/condition,” with the sense of a specific state belonging to someone or something. It is used when the speaker is referring to that person’s or thing’s condition as something being acted upon or described. For example: Onun durumunu öğrenmek istiyorum (“I want to learn his/her/its condition”). Yetkililer durumunu değerlendirecekler (“The authorities will evaluate his/her/its condition”). The form is productive in both spoken and written Turkish.

Morphological notes

Durum is the base noun meaning state or condition. The ending -u in durumunu marks the third-person possessive (his/her/its) for the possessed noun, and the overall form is further shaped by Turkish case and harmony rules to indicate it as a definite direct object. Because Turkish morphology stacks suffixes, the exact surface form can vary with vowel harmony, but durumunu is the standard citation form for “his/her/its state” in the object position.

Related concepts

Durum as a general word for state or condition appears across Turkish discourse, from everyday conversation to journalism. The construction exemplifies Turkish agglutinative morphology, where multiple suffixes attach to a stem to encode possession, definiteness, and grammatical role.