Possessive suffixes: function and spelling

Possessive suffixes are added not only to nouns but also to the participle (-gan, -adigan etc.) and verbal noun (-sh, -ish etc.) forms of the verb. In such words the possessive suffix shows who did the action — the person and number of the doer: o‘qiganim (what I read), aytganing (what you said), kelishimiz (our coming). Because the person is clear from the suffix itself, adding words like “mening”, “sening” is often unnecessary: instead of “Mening kelishim” one says simply “Kelishim”. These forms can be the subject, object or predicate of a sentence: Aytganing to‘g‘ri chiqdi (What you said turned out right).