Kahvesidir
Kahvesidir is a Turkish nominal predicate form derived from kahve (coffee) with possessive and copular morphemes. In practical terms, kahvesidir can be analyzed as kahve + si (third-person possessive suffix: its/its) + dir (the copula "is"). The result conveys a predicative statement meaning roughly “is its coffee” or, in broader contexts, serves to illustrate how Turkish marks possession within a predication. It is not a common standalone dictionary entry; rather, it appears in linguistic descriptions and examples showing Turkish morphology and the use of the copula.
- Possessive: kahvesi (its coffee; his/her/its coffee)
- Combined form: kahvesidir, used in contexts that require a possessed predication. A more neutral predicative form
- Kahvesidir is primarily used in grammatical or discourse-focused contexts to demonstrate how possession interacts with the
- In everyday speech, speakers more commonly use kahvedir for bare predication (it is coffee) or construct
- Bu içecek kahvedir. (This beverage is coffee.)
- Onun kahvesidir. (It is his/her coffee.)
- Bu fincan kahvesidir. (This cup is its coffee.)
Kahvesidir thus serves as an illustrative case in Turkish morphology, highlighting how possession attaches to a