Ifadenin

Ifadenin is the genitive form of the Turkish noun ifade, meaning "expression" or "statement." The form indicates possession or association, roughly translating to "of the expression" or "the expression’s." The base word ifade also functions as a verb stem in phrases such as ifade etmek, meaning "to express" or "to state." The genitive suffix -in (with variants -ın, -in, -un, -ün as dictated by vowel harmony) attaches to ifade to form ifadenin.

Usage and meaning: Ifadenin is commonly used in both everyday Turkish and formal registers to link an expression or statement to something else. Typical constructions include phrases like "ifadenin amacı" (the purpose of the expression/statement), "ifadenin içeriği" (the content of the expression/statement), and "ifadenin reddi" (the denial of the expression/statement). In many contexts, the sense is figurative (expression or statement) rather than a physical artifact.

Legal and academic context: In Turkish law, ifade can refer to a formal statement or testimony given to authorities. The related phrase "ifadenin alınması" denotes the act of taking or recording a statement. In scholarly writing, "ifadenin" often introduces analysis about what an expression or statement conveys, its implications, or its relation to a subject.

Related forms: The root noun exists in other cases and numbers, for example ifadeler (expressions), ifadelerin (of the expressions), ifadeye (to the expression), and so on, depending on the syntactic role in a sentence.

See also: ifade, ifade etmek, savunma ifadesi.