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Adjective and noun clauses Lookup

In this lesson, we will learn how adjective clauses (for describing a noun using an adjective, like
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beautiful girl) and noun clauses (for describing ownership relationships between nouns, like car's
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door) are formed in Turkish. First, let's start with the adjective clauses which is simpler and then
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Constructing adjective clauses in Turkish is very simple and straightforward, almost the same as in as low as
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English. The only thing you need to do is to put the correct adjective before the noun. as ...
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beautiful girl ==> güzel kız si++: Literally: x´e göre = as it looks to x, how it l
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fast car ==> hızlı araba Turkish to English
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big house ==> büyük ev 5 kilo fazlam var...
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thick book ==> kalın kitap
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high building ==> yüksek bina it please help me ...
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hard lesson ==> zor ders sam1: ...
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slow train ==> yava! tren insallah: Selam Cnm, bizi hatirladin yine, cok sag
bir gundu ama hava sog...
sahip (olmak)?
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If you don't add the adjective before the noun but use it as the main expression in the sentence, the as any noun. As...
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This girl is beautiful. --> Bu kız güzel
seni annen mi giydirdi?
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This car is fast. --> Bu araba hızlı. in Swedish?
colloquial in future tense
Ahmet is tall. --> Ahmet uzun. tunci: Colloquial in Present ... Tense ; [Note: this fo
informal and ...
I am tall. --> Ben uzunum. (Note the use of verb to be with the adjective)
You are tall. --> Sen uzunsun. Turkish Class on Facebook

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However, note that when you want to say a beautiful girl, the word for a (bir) is placed between the
adjective and the noun.
a small piece ==> küçük bir parça
a greedy man ==> açgözlü bir adam
a blue book ==> mavi bir kitap
a short tree ==> kısa bir a"aç
a long movie ==> uzun bir film

Let's now apply what we've learned in the construction of a few sentences. Add thumbnails like this to your site

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This is a red rose. ==> Bu kırmızı bir gül.
Joe is a quiet kid. ==> Joe sessiz bir çocuk.
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Joe is a very quiet kid. ==> Joe çok sessiz bir çocuk.
Joe is a very quiet kid. ==> Joe çok sessiz bir çocuk.

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Noun clauses
Two nouns form a clause in three different ways in Turkish:
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Case1:
The first noun tells what the second noun is made of (i.e. metal box, plastic plate...). In this case, you
just write these nouns in the same order as you do in English without adding any suffixes.
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plastic plate ==> plastik tabak

Case2:
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The first noun describes the second noun, wıth any relationship except for the made-of relationship
we saw above and the specific ownership relationship. Examples to this case can be car key, book
shelf, garden door, window glass... In this case, you write the nouns in the same order as English, Ay!e
but add the suffix -i at the end of the second noun. If the noun to which you append suffix -i
already ends with a vowel, you add the fusion consonant -s between these vowels to separate the two Story by erdinc
vowels. The third example below demonstrates this case.
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car key ==> araba anahtarı
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garden door ==> bahçe kapısı (note the fusion consonant s here)
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window glass ==> pencere camı
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Case 3:
There is a specific ownership relationship between the two nouns (the key of the car, the door of the Antalya - Kaleici
garden, Kemal's daughter, the door of the car). In this case, you write the describing noun first and
the described noun second as it was done in the preceding two cases. However, you add the suffix - Picture by slavica
in to the first noun and the suffix -i to the second noun. If the noun to which you append the suffix
-in already ends with a vowel, you add the fusion consonant n between the two vowels to separate Noun states

them. For the suffix -i, the fusion consonant is same as told in the previous case. You add the
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consonant s to separate the word ending with a vowel from the suffix -i.
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the key of the car ==> arabanın anahtarı (note the use of fusion consonant n here for the first noun,
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the door of the garden ==> bahçenin kapısı

Kemal's daughter ==> Kemalin kızı
the door of the car ==> arabanın kapısı (note the use of fusion consonant n for the first noun and
the fusion consonant s for the second noun)
exception: The word for water, su, is an exception for the fusion consonants in noun clauses. The
fusion consonant for water (su) is always 'y'.
color of water --> su-in renk-i --> suyun rengi (not sunun rengi)
water of Kemal --> Kemal-in su-i --> Kemal'in suyu. (not Kemal'in susu)
(Note that ' is used in Turkish to separate the suffixes from private words that need to be always
capitalized, like Kemal in this case)

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Comments (20)

IosifCheimoniad Oct 15 + -
Hi, Report
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Really nice lessons. A question about adjective clauses. Can we say:
"hızlı bir araba" = "a fast car"
"hızlı bir araba" = "one fast car"
"hızlı iki arabalar" = "two fast cars"

Thanks

IosifCheimoniad Oct 15 + -
Hi, Report

Really nice lessons. A question about adjective clauses. Can we say:

"hızlı bir araba" = "a fast car"
"hızlı bir araba" = "one fast car"
"hızlı iki arabalar" = "two fast cars"

Thanks

sahar elgammal 7/16/2011 + -

Ahmet´in dagdaki evi= Report
ahmed´s house which is on the mounntain (+2)
ahmet´in evi= ahmed´s house / dag = mountain / da = on / kI = which
/ ( ahmed´s which is on the mountain house = ahmed´s house which on
the mountain).

MASADAKI CICEKLER = the flowers which on te table.

ALMANYA´DAKI TURKLER = turkish which are in germany.

sevcan 6/22/2011 + -
Thanks for this lesson! Report
I just have a question........... (+2)
why not AhmeD´in but AhmeT´in?
I think rules say it should be D

wahe 4/1/2011 + -
very benefit guys.thank you very much Report

wahe 4/1/2011 + -
very benefit guys.thank you very much Report
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mari-nini 1/22/2011 + -
 please write more example about case 3. thank u. i am waiting for u Report
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nadyako 11/17/2010 + -
thank you for the wonderful explanation. I could understand everything Report
so easy and not stressy. Iam Bulgarian and study Turkish language since (+1)
short time. Most of the words are exactly the same and also the
Grammatics has common rules expresions. Iam pleased to learn it if it so
pleasureful and easy to swallow as it written here in that lesson.
Te!ekkürler. Kolay gelsin

sarona 7/8/2010 + -
hmm Report
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ercheksargo 4/29/2010 + -
"Ahmet´in dagdaki evi" = Ahmet´s on-top-of-the-hill house. Ahmet´in (- Report
in = added to the possessor)& evi (-i/-si = added to the thing etc. which (+2)
is possessed) go together: Ahmet´s house.
Dagdaki is an adjective formed by adding -ki to dagda (on-hill), which
already is an adjective! So it is a bit confusing to form an adjective from
an adjective, but this is not rare in turkish, as far as i know. -KI is an
adjectival suffix, it does not express possession but only a further
description of the noun (ev).
Other examples from my book:
MASADAKI CICEKLER = the on-the-table flowers, ALMANYA´DAKI
TURKLER = the in-Germany Turks,
OTELDEKI BAR = the in-the-hotel bar. Cheers.

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