bedenlerine

Bedenlerine is a Turkish grammatical form meaning “to their bodies.” It is built from the noun beden (body) plus the third-person plural possessive suffix -leri, yielding bedenleri (their bodies), and then the dative suffix -ne/-e, giving bedenlerine (to their bodies). The order is noun + possessive plural + dative.

In usage, bedenlerine marks the indirect object or target of an action when the possessor is plural. It is used in literal contexts, such as medical or protective actions directed at multiple people, as well as in figurative or descriptive expressions involving bodies belonging to more than one person. The form connects the action to the bodies of a group rather than to a single individual.

Examples:

- Doktorlar, hastaların bedenlerine uygulanacak tedaviyi dikkatle planladı. (Doctors carefully planned the treatment to be applied to the patients’ bodies.)

- Güvenlik güçleri, sivil kişilerin bedenlerine zarar gelmemesi için tedbirler aldı. (The security forces took precautions to prevent harm to the civilians’ bodies.)

Bedenlerine functions similarly to other Turkish dative possessive constructions, where the suffix chain indicates both ownership (their) and direction or target (to). It is a standard, neutral form used across formal and informal Turkish to specify actions associated with the bodies of multiple people.

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