materyalinin

Materyalinin is a Turkish-language term that refers to the genitive or possessive form related to the noun materyal, meaning material. In Turkish grammar, such forms are used to express possession or association, translating roughly to “of the material” or “the material’s” in English. The construction is common in technical, scientific, and industrial Turkish when discussing characteristics, properties, or components of substances and materials.

Etymology and usage

Materyal comes from a loanword in Turkish derived from broader European terms for material or matter, such as the French matière or Latin materia. The ending -in in materyalinin marks a genitive/possessive relation, often functioning together with ensuing nouns to form phrases like materyalinin dayanıklılığı (the material’s durability) or materyalinin bileşenleri (the material’s components). Turkish does not rely on articles, so possessive/genitive forms such as materyalinin often appear directly before the noun they modify.

Examples

- Materyalinin dayanıklılığı bu uygulama için kritik öneme sahiptir. (The material’s durability is critical for this application.)

- Materyalinin kimyasal bileşenleri analiz ediliyor. (The material’s chemical components are being analyzed.)

- Araştırmada materyalinin özellikleri karşılaştırıldı. (In the study, the material’s properties were compared.)

Morphology

The form is created by attaching the genitive/possessive suffix to materyal, and it can appear in various compound noun phrases depending on what is being described. Turkish noun phrases often place the possessive/genitive element ahead of the head noun they modify, and materyalinin is a typical example in material science, engineering, and related fields.

See also

Turkish grammar, Genitive case, Turkish noun phrases, Material science terminology.