şunun bunun
Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- onun bunun (colloquial)
Etymology edit
Compound of şunun (“genitive form of şu (“that”)”) + bunun (“genitive form of bu (“this”)”), literally “of this, of that”.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
şunun bunun
- (idiomatic) Belonging to everyone, public, common.
- (idiomatic) Belonging to unspecified people, or people of unknown identity; to Tom, Dick and Harry.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “şunun bunun”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şunun bunun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4505