dizisi

Dizisi is a Turkish noun formed from dizi, meaning either a series or a sequence, plus the third person possessive suffix -si. In common usage, dizisi most often refers to a specific TV series, functioning as the definite form “the series” or “its series.” Because dizi can also mean a mathematical or logical sequence, dizisi can, in appropriate contexts, convey the sense of “its sequence” as well, though this sense is less common in everyday media language.

In Turkish media and everyday speech, dizisi is widely used with proper names to identify a particular show. For example, The Walking Dead dizisi means “The Walking Dead TV series.” The phrase helps speakers distinguish the show from other works with similar titles or from the broader concept of a TV series. The word also appears in references to a channel’s or producer’s output, as in “ABC’nin dizisi,” meaning “ABC’s series.” When speaking of multiple series, Turkish uses diziler (plural), while dizisi remains the singular possessive form.

Grammatically, dizisi is the noun dizi plus the possessive suffix, and it can appear in sentences where a specific series is being attributed or described. It is not a separate title or proper noun; rather, it is a generic grammatical form used to refer to the series associated with a name or context. For non-television contexts, the same construction can denote a sequence, though the TV-series sense is by far the most common in contemporary Turkish.