iyelik

iyelik.js

An helper tool to add possessive suffixes to improper nouns in Turkish.

🙋 The genitive case suffix (ilgi eki) and the possessive suffix (iyelik eki) are two different concepts in Turkish language. If you're looking to handle genitives (such as "Serdar'ın kalemi" or "Tayfun'un evi", have a look at https://github.com/tayfunerbilen/js-iyelik-eki (despite the fact that the repo is misnamed).

This tool handles posssessive suffixes such as "kalemim" or "eviniz". See it working below:

Demo

1. Clone or download the repo
2. Open index.html in your browser and write anything in the text input

Installation

npm install iyelik
# or 
yarn add iyelik

Usage in node

const iyelik = require('iyelik')
 
let word = 'kalem';
word.iyelik('benim') # => 'kalemim'
 
word = 'ev';
word.iyelik('sizin') # => 'eviniz'
word.iyelik('sizin', true) # => 'evleriniz'

Usage in browser

<script type="text/javascript" src="dist/bundle.js"></script>
<script>
   let word = 'kalem';
   console.log(word.iyelik('benim')); //"kalemim"
  
   word = 'ev';
   console.log(word.iyelik('sizin')); //"eviniz"
   console.log(word.iyelik('sizin', true)); //"evleriniz"
</script> 

Notes

This project is still in its early stages. The code attempts to apply consonant softening as well as adding possessive suffixes to the phrases, but

• mutation exceptions list is missing (probably lots of) words,
• some phrases are already known to be not handled properly (such as "havuç çorbası", "semizotu", "karın") thus the algorithm requires more tinkering.

TODO

• handling edge cases
• writing unit tests

If you would like to contribute feel free to submit a pull request.