Havuzunu

Havuzunu is a Turkish grammatical form derived from havuz (pool). It marks possession by a third person singular and also marks the noun as the definite direct object in a sentence. In English, it roughly corresponds to “his pool” or “her pool” when the pool is the object of the verb. The exact vowels of the suffixes follow Turkish vowel harmony, so forms can vary with context and surrounding vowels.

Formation and usage: Havuzunu is created by attaching a third-person possessive ending to havuz and then adding the accusative (definite) ending. This combination allows the noun to function as a specific object belonging to someone. The suffix sequence is not separated by a space, as Turkish agglutinative morphology attaches directly to the noun. The pronoun indicating the possessor is often explicit in the surrounding discourse, but with havuzunu the possession is embedded in the word itself.

Examples: O havuzunu temizliyor. (He/She/It is cleaning his/her/its pool.) Havuzunu doldurmak için su getirildi. (Water was brought to fill his/her/its pool.) The exact interpretation of “his/her/its” depends on context, since Turkish relies on suffixes and context to convey the possessor.

Related forms: Havuz (pool) is the base noun. Other possessed forms include havuzum (my pool), havuzun (your pool), havuzu (the pool as a definite object with third-person possession or for other syntactic needs). The form havuzunu specifically indicates a third-person possessive plus an accusative ending.

See also: Havuz.