Kaydın tarihi bana hâlâ kuşkulu geliyor.

The recording's date still seems dubious to me.

Breakdown of Kaydın tarihi bana hâlâ kuşkulu geliyor.

• ben: me
• tarih: the date
• kayıt: the record
• gelmek: to seem

Questions & Answers about Kaydın tarihi bana hâlâ kuşkulu geliyor.

Why is it kaydın tarihi? What do the two endings mean?

This is a very common Turkish noun phrase pattern.

• kaydın = of the record
• tarihi = its date / the date

Together, kaydın tarihi means the date of the record or the record’s date.

This structure is called a genitive-possessive construction:

• first noun: gets the genitive ending → kaydın
• second noun: gets the 3rd person possessive ending → tarihi

So the pattern is:

X-in Y-si = the Y of X

Examples:

• evin kapısı = the door of the house
• öğrencinin kitabı = the student’s book
• kaydın tarihi = the date of the record

Why does kayıt become kaydın instead of kayıtın?