Hormonunun

Hormonunun is a Turkish noun form built from the word hormonal, or more precisely from hormon, the Turkish word for hormone. In Turkish grammar, -un (with appropriate vowel harmony) is a possessive suffix that marks the third-person singular possessive, so hormonunun translates roughly as “the hormone’s” or “of the hormone.” It is used to indicate that something belongs to, or is associated with, a specific hormone.

In normal usage, hormonunun is the common form when a following noun begins with a consonant and the surrounding phonology requires the full possessive construction. It appears in phrases such as hormonunun etkisi (the hormone’s effect), hormonunun dengesi (the hormone’s balance), or hormonunun salgılanması (the secretion of the hormone). The base noun can then be further described by adjectives and other nouns, forming a typical Turkish noun phrase.

Turkish possesses examples with other persons as well, such as hormonum (my hormone) and hormonun (your hormone or his/her/their hormone, depending on context). The exact form may shift slightly with surrounding vowels and suffixes, but hormonunun consistently marks possession relating to a specific hormone.

Summary: hormonunun is the Turkish possessive construction meaning “the hormone’s” or “of the hormone,” used to attribute characteristics or actions to a particular hormone within a sentence. It is commonly found in medical, biological, and physiological discussions in Turkish.

See also: hormone, Turkish grammar, possessive suffixes.