Sorununun

Sorununun is a Turkish noun form created by attaching a genitive suffix to the noun soru (question) and then adding a third-person possessive suffix. The combined form conveys possession and is typically translated as “the question’s” or “of the question.” Turkish grammar commonly stacks suffixes onto a noun in a fixed order, and sorununun illustrates how genitive and possessive affixes can be chained to produce a single, multi-layered possessive expression.

Morphology and formation: The base is soru. The genitive suffix -n- yields sorunun (the question’s / of the question). A third-person singular possessive suffix -un attaches to this form, producing sorununun, which signals possession by a third-person referent (his/her/its). Because Turkish suffixes harmonize with the preceding vowel, the exact spelling adapts to context, though sorununun is the conventional written form. This construction is most likely to appear in formal or technical contexts where a precise owner of the question must be specified.

Usage: Sorununun is typically found in noun phrases within academic, legal, or analytic prose, where it is important to attribute a property or relation to a particular question. It is more common in specialized or formal registers and less frequent in everyday speech; speakers may instead prefer sorunun or onun sorusu to express similar ideas in a simpler way.

Example: Onun sorununun çözümü uzun sürmüş. Translation: The solution to his/her question took a long time. Another potential use is in longer phrases such as bu rapordaki sorununun bağlamı, meaning “the context of the question in this report.” Overall, sorununun demonstrates Turkish’s capacity to encode complex possessive relationships through concatenated suffixes.