Can i ask a question as i am finding it hard to understand... When you are adding the personal suffix to a name why do they not follow the same rule for example

Gizim'in araba

kedinin yemegi

why would it not be gizimnin araba as well?

thats difference of special names and general names Laura,u have to use mark for the special names

i still dont understand

I see what you mean about using the '

But why is some nin and some in??

They arefollowing the same vowels

ohh i see,really not easy to explain that.Bur shortly if a word end with the e,i,a,o,ö.u,ü u have to use the true letter for add something

and no need to add any letter if the words ending with the s.m,h,l c.t etc......

Thank you both very much for taking the time to explain - i know its not easy trying to explain something in another language

Surely the 'n' is just a buffer consonant......

Or have I missed something here???

bod ,you miss something, not likely