"Kitabın yazarı makarna yer."

Translation: The author of the book eats pasta.

[GershTri]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the possessive also used to create compound words, i.e. "kitabın yazarı" could also be translated as "book author" ("Buchautor" for the German speakers), and not just as "book's author"? Or would "book author" be simply "kitap yazar" in Turkish?

[LiliumAgri]

Almost. The third person singular possessed ending -(s)i(n) is used to create compound words without using the possessor marking on the initial noun. So:

taksinin şöförü = the driver of the taxi [possessor and possessed marked]

taksi şöförü = taxi driver [only the main noun of the compound phrase marked]

So yes, kitap yazarı is a meaningful phrase. It struck my eye as just a bit strange since I don't normally feel the need to modify yazar but it would certainly have its contexts. I don't think Turkish goes for the compound word quite as often as German, but then, most languages outside of Sanskrit don't.:)

[NuhaKassim]

So difficultthis sentences

[AdamBushell]

Is "The book's author eats pasta" acceptable as it said it was incorrect

[saram103]

Can someone explain why it's not "Your book's author eats pasta."

[dieprinzessin]

Here you have a Genitive (possessive) construction:
Two words are linked with each other

-The owner : gets (n)ln ending - in this case: Kitabın -of the book
(no 'n' because kitaP ends with a consonant, ı- for the the 'a' in kitAp (vowel-harmony))

-The possessed: gets s (l) (n) ending - in this case: yazarı -the author
(no 's' because yazar ends with a consonant, 'ı' for the the 'a' in yazAr (vowel-harmony) no 'n' -because there is no other case ending (like for instance accusative) to be attached)

Now we have 'the author of the book'.

-'Your book' would be: With the same structure as above 'Sen-İN kitab-İ'
-Next step is to glue them together:
(sen-İN) kitab-İ + Kitabın yazarı = ?
- we drop the pronoun 'senim ' and take only the second part of the term
kitab-İ (your book) + (n) because we have another ending following+ the possessive ending (ın) of our second term (Kitabın yazarı)=

Kitabının yazarı - the author of your book.

(I am only a learner, so I hope I got it right)

[Selcen_Ozturk]

correct :)

"Your book's author": kitabının yazarı

[Complex77]

Now I am totally confused. why would the pronoun be seniM and not seniN?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

I am 99% sure that she just had a typo :) It is always senin :)

[dieprinzessin]

You got me there. I corrected it now ;P

[Irenesmithson]

That's what i thought

[Sayelabbad]

"The book's author eats pasta" is correct.

[belalablou]

Is makarna exactly the same as pasta or could I translate it as noodles? As far as I know (just learned :) ) pasta refers only to italian noodles. Is makarna the same?

[Prensesangelica]

Sjkslaskkwlalaj i wrote "the book of the author eats pasta"

[Rebean1]

Both (The author of the book) and (The book author) are right answers. And actually (The book author) is better and more common

[Victopteryx]

Would "the book of the author" be "yazarın kitapı"? It doesn't make a lot of sense, I know, but is that how the structure would work?

[machaut]

I think you are correct, except it would be kitabı.

[ShehrBano16]

The author's book and the book of the author are same in Turkish i.e., yazarın kitabı.
While the book's author and the author of the book will be same i.e., kitabın yazarı

[Koran822325]

The sentences are getting rather specific.

[Nadeer465477]

Why didnt we say 'kitabın yazarsi' like 'yazarin kedisi'

[ShehrBano16]

When a word ends in VOWEL it gets suffix "-si". If the word ends in CONSONANT it gets suffix "-i".
Hence, kedi = kedisi.
And yazar = yazarı

[Youssef.tsun]

I wrote at first "the book of the author eats"...
Opps when i reached "eats" i changed the sentence to make the poor author eat not his book..