Dönümünün

Dönümünün is a Turkish linguistic form, the possessive/genitive construction of the noun dönüm. The base word dönüm carries several related senses, including a literal turning or rotation, a figurative turning point, milestone, or a significant change, and in some contexts political or historical revolutions. The exact sense of dönümünün depends on the accompanying noun and the broader discourse.

Morphology and usage: Dönümünün is created by attaching possessive and possibly genitive suffixes to dönüm. It expresses “of its turning” or “the turning point of [X],” functioning as a dependent noun phrase. In practice, it appears in phrases such as dönümünün etkileri (the effects of the turning point) or dönümünün tarihi (the history of the turning point). The phrase is common in formal or analytical Turkish, including historical, sociopolitical, and scientific writing, and more limited in everyday speech unless a specific referent is established.

Examples and nuance: The term can refer to a decisive moment in a sequence of events (a turning point) or to a literal turning event in a physical process. Because dönümünün is a possessive/genitive form, it typically grades into other modifiers in a sentence, for instance by linking to a head noun like dönümünün önemi (the importance of the turning point) or dönümünün etkileri (the effects of the turning point). The interpretation hinges on the context and the noun it modifies.

See also: dönüm noktası (turning point), dönüştürmek (to transform), dönüm noktalarının analizi (analysis of turning points).