sinyallerine

Sinyallerine is a Turkish morpho-syntactic form that encodes plurality, possession, and the dative case together, roughly translating to “to its signals” or “to their signals” in English. The form arises from the combination of several suffixes attached to the noun sinyal (signal). First the plural suffix -ler/-lar yields sinyaller (signals). A third-person possessive suffix -i (or its vowel-harmonized variant) then produces sinyalleri (its signals), and finally the dative suffix -e/-a adds to form sinyallerine, indicating movement toward or direction to the signals. The exact referent of “its” or “their” is determined by context in a sentence.

In usage, sinyallerine appears as part of noun phrases and can be combined with other elements to express relationships such as comparison, direction, or basis. It is a typical example of Turkish’s agglutinative morphology, illustrating how multiple affixes stack on a root to convey grammatical meaning without separate prepositions.

Examples:

- Sinyallerine göre hareket etmeliyiz. (We should act according to its signals.)

- Cihaz sinyallerine bakıyor. (The device is looking at its signals / paying attention to its signals.)

- Sinyallerine güvenmek zor olabilir. (It may be hard to trust its signals.)

Etymologically, sinyal is a loanword used in Turkish from European languages, and sinyallerine demonstrates the regular Turkish processes of pluralization, possession, and case marking applied to a common noun. See also Turkish grammar, Turkish suffixes, and Turkish loanwords.