grubunun

Grubunun is a Turkish genitive possessive construction used to express ownership or association by a group. It appears in phrases where something belongs to, or is attributed to, a group rather than to an individual.

The form is built from the noun grup (group) combined with a possessive/genitive suffix. In Turkish, these suffixes vary with vowel harmony, and grubunun represents the version used for a third-person possessive within a genitive phrase. The resulting expression translates roughly as “of the group” or “the group’s.” This construction is common in both formal writing and everyday speech when a group’s attributes, actions, or possessions are being described.

Examples illustrate its use: Grubunun amacı, the group’s purpose; Grubunun kararları bu ay açıklanacak, the group’s decisions will be announced this month; Grubunun üyeleri toplantıda, the group’s members are at the meeting. In sentences, grubunun typically precedes a noun it modifies and marks that the following element relates to the group as possessor.

Usage notes emphasize that grubunun is part of Turkish possessive and genitive systems that attach suffixes directly to stems. It is most common in contexts involving organizations, communities, or collections. Related forms include other possessive/genitive variants such as grubun (the group’s, with a different syntactic weight) and grupların (the groups’). Understanding grubunun helps parse ownership relationships expressed without independent possessive pronouns in Turkish.