sinirin

Sinirin is a Turkish term formed by adding the second-person singular possessive suffix -in to the noun sinir, which means nerve. In Turkish, possessive relationships are expressed directly on the noun with suffixes, so sinirin translates roughly to “your nerve.” It functions as a grammatical form rather than a standalone lexical item.

The base noun sinir carries two related senses: an anatomical nerve and, figuratively, nerve, courage, or temperament. The possessive form sinirin inherits these senses and is used when the speaker intends to indicate that the listener’s nerve or nerve-related attribute is being referred to. Like other Turkish possessive forms, sinirin appears within noun phrases and clauses rather than as an independent word outside a context of possession.

Turkish is an agglutinative language, and sinirin is one example of how suffixes encode relationships in a single word. Other possessed forms include sinirim (my nerve) and siniri (his/her nerve). Sinirin also participates in compound expressions and set phrases common in Turkish, such as those relating to anatomy (nervous system) or everyday language (figurative uses of nerve or temper). Although it may not be listed as a separate headword in all dictionaries, sinirin illustrates Turkish possessive morphology and how personal relationships are embedded in the form of nouns.