Kültürünü

Kültürünü is a Turkish inflected form of the noun kültür (culture) used to indicate possession by a third person singular subject and to mark the noun as a direct object in a sentence. In practice, it functions as “its culture” or “the culture of X” within a larger clause, with the exact meaning determined by context and the referenced possessor.

Morphology and usage in Turkish involve combining the root cultural term with suffixes that encode possession and case. The possessive suffix denotes whose culture is being talked about, and the accusative or object-marking suffix positions the phrase as the object of a verb. The phonetic shape can vary with vowel harmony, giving forms such as kültürü or kültürünü, depending on the surrounding sentence and the required case.

Common contexts for kültürünü include statements about cultural preservation, examination, or description, especially when the speaker is referring to the culture of a country, community, institution, or other entity already identified in discourse. Example sentences include: Ülkenin kültürünü tanıtmak için bir program hazırladık (We prepared a program to introduce the country’s culture), Kültürünü korumak toplum için önemlidir (Protecting its culture is important for the society), Kültürünü anlamaya çalışıyoruz (We are trying to understand its culture).

See also kültür, kültürel, kültürleşme.