güvenine

Güvenine is a Turkish inflected form of the noun güven, meaning trust or confidence. It is formed by combining the third-person possessive suffix -i with the dative suffix -e, yielding güveni + e = güvenine. The result functions as a dative possessive form that can be translated roughly as “to his/her/its trust” or “for his/her/its trust,” depending on the syntactic context.

As a grammatical construction, güvenine is not a separate lexical item but a multi-suffix form of güven. It appears in sentences where trust or confidence is the recipient or beneficiary of an action, or where something is directed toward trust itself. The exact meaning—whether indicating direction, purpose, or reliance—depends on the verb and surrounding words in the clause.

In Turkish usage, forms like güvenine are more common in formal, literary, or specialized contexts than in everyday speech. They illustrate how Turkish can encode possession, case, and relational nuances through suffix harmony, producing nuanced shades such as “toward trust,” “for trust,” or “upon trust” as dictated by the sentence structure.

See also: Turkish grammar, Turkish suffixes, Turkish possessive and case marking.