toplumlarndan
Toplumlarndan is a Turkish noun phrase that corresponds to the ablative plural meaning “from the societies.” It is formed by taking the noun toplum (society), adding the plural suffix -lar to yield toplumlar (societies), and then attaching the ablative suffix -dan to indicate origin or source. In standard Turkish orthography, the usual form for this meaning is toplumlardan. The sequence of suffixes reflects Turkish’s agglutinative structure, where plurality and case are appended in a fixed order.
In practice, toplumlardan is used to refer to a source coming from multiple societies. For example, Toplumlardan
- The standard form for “from the societies” is toplumlardan.
- The form toplumlarından explicitly encodes possession (their societies) before the ablative meaning.
- The exact spelling toplumlarndan is uncommon in formal Turkish and is typically considered nonstandard or a
See also: Turkish grammar, Ablative case, Plural suffix -lar/-ler, Possessive suffix -ları/-leri.