Kendisiyle

Kendisiyle is a Turkish postpositional construction formed from kendisi, a third-person reflexive pronoun meaning himself, herself, or itself, and ile, the postposition for "with." The combination yields the meaning "with himself/herself/itself" and is used to indicate interaction or association with the subject’s own person or entity. The form is singular in the third person, while there are parallel forms for other persons (for example, kendileriyle for "with themselves," kendimle for "with myself," kendinle for "with yourself").

Morphology and variants play a key role in its usage. Kendisiyle denotes interaction with the subject’s own self in the third person. The corresponding plural form is kendileriyle. For other persons, analogous forms exist: kendimle (with myself) and kendinle (with yourself). In Turkish, there are also common alternatives to express self-interaction, such as kendi kendine, which specifically emphasizes speaking to or addressing one’s own self; kendisiyle can carry a sense of addressing or dealing with one’s own self as a person or entity.

Usage and nuance. Kendisiyle is used to describe actions directed at or conducted with one’s own self or with a self as a distinct interlocutor. It can convey introspection, self-confrontation, or self-directed interaction in both literal and figurative senses. While self-talk is frequently expressed with kendi kendine, kendisiyle appears in contexts that stress the other-sidedness of the self, such as "Kendisiyle hesaplaşmak" (to confront or settle accounts with oneself) or "kendisiyle barışmak" (to make peace with oneself).

See also. Kendisi; Kendileriyle; Kendimle; Kendinle.