setinin

Setinin is a Turkish-language grammatical form meaning “of the set” or “the set’s.” It is not a standalone concept; rather, it is the genitive form derived from the noun set used to indicate possession in noun phrases. In Turkish, possessed nouns appear in a genitive construction with the possessor preceding the possessed term; setinin signals that the following noun belongs to or is a property of the set.

For example, setinin elemanları means “the elements of the set,” setinin içeriği means “the contents of the set,” and setinin büyüklüğü means “the size of the set.” The underlying mechanism is the Turkish genitive suffix -in attached to the noun set, combined with the usual word order in noun phrases. In some Turkish mathematical texts, the standard term for mathematical sets is küme rather than set; in those contexts the corresponding forms are kümenin, kümelerin, etc. When set is used directly in Turkish, setinin is the conventional form to express possession.

In usage, setinin appears primarily in formal or technical writing, including translations of English phrases such as “the set’s elements” or “the set’s cardinality.” The construction is productive: Turkish routinely uses a possessive/genitive form to express “of the X” and “X’s Y” across domains, including mathematics, logic, and philosophy. See also Turkish grammar, Turkish possessive suffixes, Turkish genitive, and küme.