şunun bunun

Turkish

Alternative forms

• onun bunun (colloquial)

Etymology

Compound of şunun (“genitive form of şu (“that”)”) +‎ bunun (“genitive form of bu (“this”)”), literally “of this, of that”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃuˈnun.bu.nun/
• Hyphenation: şu‧nun‧bu‧nun

Adjective

şunun bunun

1. (idiomatic) Belonging to everyone, public, common.
2. (idiomatic) Belonging to unspecified people, or people of unknown identity; to Tom, Dick and Harry.

Related terms

• şuna buna
• şunda bunda
• şundan bundan
• şundan bundan konuşmak

 

Further reading

• “şunun bunun”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şunun bunun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4505