Hedefidir

Hedefidir is a Turkish linguistic form used to illustrate a predicative construction in Turkish grammar. The word is formed by attaching the copular suffix -dir to the noun hedef, which means target or objective. The resulting form literally means “is the target.” The -dir suffix is one of several emphatic copular variants in Turkish that mark identity or classification in a declarative clause.

Morphology and usage. The construction demonstrates how Turkish can express predication with emphasis by adding a copular suffix to a noun root. In practice, hedefidir is most often encountered in formal, literary, or analytical writing rather than in everyday speech, where simpler structures such as Bu hedefdir or Bu hedef daha sık used are more common. Hedefidir functions as the predicate in a sentence, indicating that the preceding noun is the designated target or objective of discussion, action, or analysis.

Examples. Bu plan hedefidir. (This plan is the target.) Amaç bu projenin hedefidir. (The aim is the project’s target.) In these examples, the noun hedef with the copular suffix -dir emphasizes the explicit identity of the target within the sentence.

Relation to Turkish grammar. Hedefidir exemplifies the use of predicative noun phrases in Turkish and highlights the role of the copula in creating emphasis or definitional statements. It is not a separate lexical item, but a derived form that can appear in discourse to stress that a particular element is the target.

See also: Turkish grammar, copula, predication, equative sentences.