sporcunun

Sporcunun is a Turkish genitive/possessive form derived from the noun sporcu, meaning athlete. It functions to indicate possession or association and translates roughly as “the athlete’s” or “of the athlete.” In Turkish, possession is expressed by attaching suffixes to the possessed noun, so sporcu takes the genitive/possessive suffix to form sporcunun.

In use, sporcunun modifies another noun to show a relationship to the athlete. For example, sporcunun forması means “the athlete’s uniform,” sporcunun performansı means “the athlete’s performance,” and sporcunun kariyeri means “the athlete’s career.” The construction is productive in both everyday language and sports journalism, biographies, and match reports.

Sporcunun contrasts with sporcuların, which is the plural possessive meaning “the athletes’.” For example, sporcuların antrenörü means “the athletes’ coach.” Turkish allows long chains of suffixes, so a phrase such as sporcunun maçına can express “to the athlete’s match,” while sporcunun maçını ifade etmek would mean “to express the athlete’s match” depending on the sentence structure.

Summary: sporcunun is the singular possessive/genitive form of sporcu used to denote ownership or association with a single athlete. It is commonly found in noun phrases describing possessions or relations involving an athlete.