Maddelerinin

Maddelerinin is a Turkish grammatical form used to indicate possession by a third-person plural subject. It is derived from maddeler, meaning substances or ingredients, and functions as the genitive (possessive) form in contexts where the owner or possessor is valued as “they” or “them.” The phrase translates roughly as “of their substances” or, in context, “their substances.” For example, Maddelerinin içeriği değişti means “The contents of their substances changed.”

In usage, maddelerinin appears in scientific, academic, or technical Turkish when describing the composition, properties, or contents belonging to a group of substances. It exemplifies Turkish agglutinative morphology, where multiple suffixes are joined to a base noun to express number, possession, and relationship to other elements in a sentence. The same noun can take other possessive forms depending on the possessor and number, such as forms used for singular possessors or different persons and numbers, but maddelerinin specifically marks possession by a plural subject.

See also:

- Turkish grammar

- Genitive case (Turkish)

- Possessive suffixes in Turkish

Notes:

- The exact suffix chain in Turkish can be intricate, with order and harmony affecting the final form. Maddelerinin is one common realization when the possessor is plural.