쉼àë³ì³í³’

쉼àë³ì (teacher) +i (the third person possessive suffix) +í³’ 'of the teacher' indicating possession. The +í³’ is called a genitive case suffix.

Unlike English, Kazakh uses a case system to indicate grammatical relationships between words in a sentence. Relations such as subject, object, motion towards and location are all expressed by adding a case suffix to a noun. Every noun and pronoun in a sentence takes a certain case suffix. You will be learning them one by one throughout these lessons.
Kazakh has seven cases:
1. Nominative case
2. Genitive case
3. Dative case
4. Accusative case
5. Locative case
6. Ablative case
7. Instrumental case

The Nominative Case:
The nominative case is used for the grammatical subject of a sentence. This case has a zero ending and so is identical to the 'dictionary form' of a noun-stem or pronoun.

The Genitive Case:
The suffixes of the genitive case are as follows:
after vowels and ì, í, ’ +íû’/+í³’
after ç, æ, ð, ë, é, ó +äû’/+ä³’
after ï, ñ, ò, ê, ”, and á, â, ã, ä +òû’/+ò³’

The genitive case often shows ownership. The owner (possesser) is the noun in the genitive case: ìó¼àëìí³’ 'of the teacher'
In addition, the possessed object takes the possessive suffix.
For example:
쉼àë³ìí³’ àò (name) +û (the 3rd person possessive suffix 'his/her')
쉼àë³ìí³’ àòû = Literally: 'of the teacher his/her name'

Òàë¼àò + òû’ ('of Talgat) `£êå (father) + ñ³ (possessive suffix for 'his/her')
Òàë¼àòòû’ £êåñ³ 'Talgat's father'