Breakdown of Bu değerlendirmenin nesnel olduğunu düşünüyorum.
Questions & Answers about Bu değerlendirmenin nesnel olduğunu düşünüyorum.
It comes from değerlendirme, which means evaluation, assessment, or appraisal.
Here it appears as değerlendirme + nin → değerlendirmenin.
The ending -(n)in is the genitive ending, often corresponding to of or marking possession/association.
So on its own, değerlendirmenin means roughly:
- of the evaluation
- or, in this sentence’s grammar, the evaluation’s
Because değerlendirme ends in a vowel, the genitive takes the buffer n, giving -nin.
Because this sentence contains an embedded clause: that this evaluation is objective.
In Turkish, when a clause like that is turned into a noun-like structure, the subject of the embedded clause usually takes the genitive ending.
So:
- Bu değerlendirme nesnel. = This evaluation is objective.
- Bu değerlendirmenin nesnel olduğunu düşünüyorum. = I think that this evaluation is objective.
In the second sentence, bu değerlendirme becomes bu değerlendirmenin because it is the subject of the embedded -DIK clause.