çerçevesini
çerçevesini is a Turkish grammatical form rather than a standalone lexical item. It represents the direct object (the accusative case) of the noun phrase whose base is çerçeve, meaning frame. The form is built by attaching the third-person possessive suffix -si to çerçeve, yielding çerçevesi (its frame, or the frame of it), and then adding the accusative suffix -ni to that possessed form, producing çerçevesini. In Turkish, the order of suffixes typically follows stem + possessive + case, and the vowels in the suffixes harmonize with the stem.
- Çerçevesini functions as the object of a verb. The possessive suffix marks ownership, while the accusative
- Because Turkish lacks a definite article, this construction still marks definiteness through the suffix chain rather
- Fotoğrafın çerçevesini değiştirdim. (I changed its frame of the photograph.)
- Tabloya zarar vermeden önce tablo-nun çerçevesini kontrol ettim. (I checked the painting’s frame before altering it.)
- Tablonun çerçevesini kırdılar. (They broke the frame of the painting.) In this sentence, the possessor is
- çerçeve: the base noun, frame.
- çerçevesi: its frame (nominative/possessive form without the object marker).
- çerçeveyi/çerçeveni: frame as a direct object in other contexts with different possessives.
Çerçevesini thus illustrates Turkish suffixal morphology, where possession and case are encoded directly on the noun