Tarihinin

Tarihinin is a Turkish noun form that translates roughly to its history or the history of something. It appears in phrases that attribute history to a third-person possessor, such as a country, company, or organization, for example in the common expression ülkenin tarihinin en karanlık günleri (“the darkest days in the country’s history”).

Grammar and formation: Turkish expresses possession through a combination of possessive and genitive suffixes. The possessor noun is marked with a genitive suffix, while the possessed noun often carries a third-person possessive suffix. In phrases like şirketin tarihinin, the structure shows ownership of history by the possessor and then places that history in a broader nominal context. The word tarihinin itself is formed from tarih (history) plus the relevant suffixes, following Turkish vowel harmony rules.

Usage: Tarihinin is used in both written and spoken Turkish to refer to the history belonging to a specific subject. It commonly participates in noun phrases that describe historical periods, events, or milestones within the context of a particular entity. For example, “ülkenin tarihinin en önemli olayları” means “the most important events in the country’s history,” and “firmanın tarihinin kilometre taşları” would mean “the milestones in the company’s history.”

See also: tarih, Turkish grammar of possession and genitive case, possessive suffixes in Turkish, list of Turkish grammatical suffixes.

Note: Turkish morphology relies on suffix chaining to express possession, making forms like tarihinin frequent in discourse about historical narratives tied to specific entities.