Enstitüsü

Enstitüsü is the Turkish possessive form of enstitü, meaning “the institute’s” or “its institute.” It is used to indicate ownership or association in Turkish sentences. The noun enstitü refers to a formally organized establishment dedicated to research, education, or a specific field. The form enstitüsü is created by adding the third-person singular possessive suffix -sü to the stem enstitü, with vowel harmony yielding -sü.

In phrases that express possession or attribution, the genitive form appears as enstitüsünün, as in “Enstitüsünün raporu yayımlandı,” which means “The institute’s report was published.” The root enstitü is a loan from Western European languages, most directly related to the French institut and the Latin institutum, and it entered Turkish during periods of modernization alongside other academic and bureaucratic terms.

The word is used both generically and in the names of specific organizations. For example, phrases such as “İktisat Enstitüsü” or “Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü” refer to particular institutes within universities or independent research bodies. Related terms include enstitü (the institute), enstitüler (pl., the institutes), enstitüde (in the institute), and enstitüye (to the institute).

In Turkish orthography, proper names may capitalize the entire title, and the possessive suffix remains part of the official name when it appears in contexts that treat the phrase as a nominal unit. Overall, enstitüsü functions as a standard grammatical form to denote ownership or association with an institute in Turkish.