cümlenin

Cümlenin is the genitive form of the Turkish noun cümle, meaning “sentence.” It marks a possessive or associative relationship with the sentence, roughly translating to “the sentence’s” or “of the sentence.” In Turkish, the genitive suffix is -in, with variants -ın, -un, -ün chosen according to vowel harmony. The form typically attaches to the noun to create a noun phrase that modifies another noun or stands in a possessive sense, as in Cümlenin öznesi nedir? (“What is the sentence’s subject?”) or Cümlenin yapısı nasıldır? (“What is the structure of the sentence?”)

Historically, cümle derives from the Arabic jumla (جملة) meaning “sentence” or “clause,” transmitted into Turkish through Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The genitive form cümlenin is standard in modern Turkish orthography and common in both scholarly and everyday usage when speaking about parts of a sentence or about relations involving a sentence.

Cümlenin illustrates a broader feature of Turkish grammar: possession and association are expressed through suffixes rather than prepositions. This suffixal system allows concise noun phrases such as “the sentence’s topic,” “the sentence’s context,” or “the sentence’s meaning” to be formed by attaching the genitive suffix to cümle and linking it to a following noun.