Now we're going to talk about
double possessives in Turkish so phrases like "my friend's cat"
Let's look at an example of how we're going to form them
Let's take the phrase "my friend's cat," we'll start with the Turkish word for friend, "arkadaş"
We want to say "my friend," so we have the option of adding the pronoun
"benim": my
In the genitive beforehand, but we don't have to. It's more important that we remember to add our possessive suffix to "arkadaş"
It's my friend so it's going to be "arkadaşım"
"Benim arkadaşım": my friend. We want to say "my friend's cat" so we need the Turkish word for cat
kedi
Now this is where the rules for double possessives come in
We are going to take this word "arkadaşım"
"my friend" and add a genitive case ending because now
I possess my friend, its my friend, but now my friend possesses a cat, so my friend gets its own
Genitive case ending so "Benim arkadaşım"
We're going to add the genitive case ending according to the rules of four-way vowel harmony
Just like with any other genitive case ending so when you say "arkadaşımın"
"arkadaşımın": of my friend. My friends "kedi," my friends cat
Because "kedi" is now being possessed by"arkadaşım"
"Kedi" needs its own possessive suffix
So we're going to choose our third person singular possessive suffix
Vowel harmony tells us it's going to be "-i"
for "kedi"
Turkish doesn't like to see these two vowels next to each other, so we're going to insert that buffer "s" so "kedisi"
"Benim arkadaşımın kedisi": my friend's cat
That's the devil possessive. Let's look at another example quickly. Let's say we want to say, "Nelay's house's door"
So Nilay is a Turkish girl's name
start with "Nilay"
Give her a nice genitive case ending "Nilay'ın"
We want to say Nilay's house, okay so "Nilay'ın" Turkish word for house is "ev"
"Nilay'ın evi"
See, singular third-person possessive suffix so far so good. "Nilay'ın evi": Nilay's house
We want to say Nilay's house's door, so we're going to add a genitive case ending to the end of "evi" after the possessive suffix
So, "Nilay'ın evinin"
We need we need this buffer "n" because "evi" now ends in a vowel so "Nilay'ın evinin"
Nilay's house's, of Nilay's house
Now we need the Turkish word for door "kapı"
And to "kapı" as we did with "kedi" we're simply going to add the
third person singular possessive suffix because "kapı" is being possessed by
"evinin" so
"Nilay'ın evinin kapısı"
"Nilay'ın evinin kapısı": Nilay's house's door and that's how we form double possessives in Turkish
I'd like to add that
although we call them double possessives they're really multiple possesses
you can keep going as long as you want to or need to, so for example if we want to say our mother's friend's car
Using in Turkish, this is what we're going to do. We're gonna start with the Turkish word for mother
"Anne"
Want to say "our mothers," so we're gonna choose the first person plural ending so "annemiz"
our mother
we want to make it a double possessive our mother's friend
So "Annemizin"
"Anne" gets its own genitive case ending
"our mother's friend"
so Turkish word were friend, "arkadaş"
Our mother's friend
"arkadaş" needs its own possessive suffix because a friend belonging to our mother
So "Annemizin arkadaşı"
Okay, but our mother's friend has a car. So our mother's friend gets his own
Genitive case ending because he is now the possessor of a car so
"Arkadaşının"..."Annemizin arkadaşının"
Now we need the Turkish word for car, "araba"
and
because our "araba" is possessed by our mother's friend "araba" needs its own possessive suffix
So, and it ends in a vowel, so we're needing the buffer "s" so "Annemizin arkadaşının arabası"
Our mother's friend's car