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The possession suffix indicates that one thing is owned by another. Below are its forms:
 

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				<th>Singular</th>
				<th>Plural</th>
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				<td>First person</td>
				<td>(İ)m</td>
				<td>(İ)mİz</td>
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			<tr>
				<td>Second person</td>
				<td>(İ)n</td>
				<td>(İ)nİz</td>
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				<td>Third person</td>
				<td>(s)İ</td>
				<td>lErİ / (s)İ</td>
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 Below you can see some examples to see how the suffix is used.
 

 <table class="ui celled fixed table">
 <tbody><tr>
 <td>my house</td>
 <td>(benim) evim</td>
 <td>my mother</td>
 <td>(benim) annem</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>your sibling</td>
 <td>(senin) kardeşin</td>
 <td>your father</td>
 <td>(senin) baban</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>her elder sisters</td>
 <td>(onun) ablaları</td>
 <td>the child's father</td>
 <td>çocuğun babası</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>our horse</td>
 <td>(bizim) atımız</td>
 <td>our family</td>
 <td>(bizim) ailemiz</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>your coffee</td>
 <td>(sizin) kahveniz</td>
 <td>your children</td>
 <td>(sizin) çocuklarınız</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>their elder sister</td>
 <td>(onların) ablaları (onların) ablası</td>
 <td>their elder sisters</td>
 <td>(onların) ablaları</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody></table>

 
 Note that personal pronouns in front of the possessed object are always optional, since the suffix of the possessed object already indicates which person is the owner.
 

 
 Also note that her elder sisters, their elder sister and their elder sisters can all be translated by ablaları.
 You can disambiguate her elder sisters by saying onun ablaları.
 You can disambiguate their elder sister by saying onların ablası, using the third person singular suffix.
 

 
 Now you might think that you can disambiguate their elder sisters by saying onların ablalarları, with one lar for indicating that the possessor is plural, and the other lar for indicating that the possessed object is plural.
 Unfortunately, you can never use the plural suffix twice in a single word, so this is not possible.

The possession suffix

noun

adjective

determiner

verb

adverb

postposition

interjection

conjunction

pronoun

sentence

phrase

Unknown

NOUN - vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

VERB - intransitive, passive

VERB - intransitive, non-passive

VERB - transitive, non-causative

VERB - transitive, causative

VERB - ablative

VERB - dative

VERB - locative

VERB - accusative

VERB - intransitive, reciprocal

VERB - intransitive, reflexive

VERB - auxiliary

Counting to 10

Fruits

The days of the week

The months of the year

Demonstratives

Adjectives

Vegetables

Animals extended

Hello and goodbye

Colors

First degree family

Nouns and articles

Plural nouns and minor vowel harmony

Personal pronouns

The verb "to be"

There is and there are

The infinitive and the stem

The imperative and major vowel harmony

The present continuous

The locative case suffix

The accusative case suffix

The dative case suffix

Final consonant harmony

Negative verbs

Questions in the present continuous

Questions with the verb "to be"

The imperative

The imperative forms of yemek and demek

Different uses of the present continuous

Irregular verbs

The Turkish alphabet

The indefinite article and the number one

The negative form of "to be"

Question words

Meeting people

Conjunctions

Stress inside questions

Locative location pronouns

Dative and ablative location pronouns

Accusative and locative personal pronouns

The genitive case suffix

Genitive personal pronouns

Extended family

Dative and ablative personal pronouns

Expressing possession with var and yok

Clothing

The head and related parts

Compound nouns

Body parts

Combining suffixes

Water and the possession suffix

Vowel elimination on suffixation

Location postpositions

Location postpositions 2

Extra vocabulary and expressions

The ablative case suffix

Wearing things

Demonstratives with case suffixes

Counting larger numbers

Using numbers and quantifiers

A bit much and more and less

Animals

Telling time

The instrumentative

The definite simple past

Food

Nuts

Countries

Traffic and directions

The weather

With and without

Nationalities

Home

Question	Answer
my house	(benim) evim
my mother	(benim) annem
your sibling	(senin) kardeşin
your father	(senin) baban
her elder sisters	(onun) ablaları
the child's father	çocuğun babası
our horse	(bizim) atımız
our family	(bizim) ailemiz
your coffee	(sizin) kahveniz
your children	(sizin) çocuklarınız
their elder sister^UNAMBIGUOUS	(onların) ablası
their elder sister(s)	(onların) ablaları
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My name is Azra. What is your name?	Benim adım Azra. Senin adın ne?
My name is Zehra. Nice to meet you.	Benim adım Zehra. Memnun oldum.

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