Use ağrı for pain or an ache. At this level, track both the person experiencing it and the role the noun plays in the sentence. The table gives forms; the examples show what each ending contributes.
The idea
The stem ağrı stays intact, including ğ and final dotless ı: ağrıyı, ağrıya, ağrının. Possession gives ağrım and ağrısı. In baş ağrısı (headache), -sı marks the noun compound; “my headache” is baş ağrım. The plural ağrılar can refer to separate aches or recurring episodes. In the table, onların ağrıları identifies several experiencers; context tells us whether there is one pain or several.
| Form | Use |
|---|---|
| ağrı | bare form: pain |
| ağrıyı | accusative: the pain (object) |
| ağrıya | dative: to the pain |
| ağrıda | locative: in the pain |
| ağrıdan | ablative: from / because of the pain |
| ağrının | genitive: of the pain |
| ağrılar | plural: pains |
| ağrım | my pain |
| ağrın | your pain (one person) |
| ağrısı | his or her pain |
| ağrımız | our pain |
| ağrınız | your pain (plural or polite) |
| onların ağrıları | their pain / pains |
| ağrılarım | my pains |
| ağrısını | his or her pain (object) |
Examples
- Ağrı gece yeniden başladı.The pain started again at night.
- Bu ağrıyı tarif edemiyorum.I cannot describe this pain.
- Annem ağrısından söz etti.My mother talked about her pain.
- Ağrıdan bütün gece uyuyamadım.I could not sleep all night because of the pain.
- Baş ağrım toplantı sırasında arttı.My headache got worse during the meeting.
- Ağrılarımın ne zaman başladığını not ettim.I noted down when my pains began.
- Ağrının yerini gösterebilir misiniz?Could you show where the pain is?
- ağrısınıhis or her pain (direct object)ağrısı-i / -si: his, her, itsnBuffer -n-: evinde, evinden, evineı-i / -ı / -u / -ü: marking the definite object
- ağrılarımdanfrom my aches and painsağrılar-ler / -lar: the plural suffixım-im / -ım / -um / -üm / -m: mydan-den / -dan / -ten / -tan: from, out of
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Watch out
The last ı of ağrı belongs to the stem: it does not already mean “his/her”. Compare ağrıyı (the pain as an object) with ağrısı (his/her pain). To make the latter an object, keep the possession and add n before the case ending: ağrısını, not ağrısıyı.
Try it yourself
Complete with the form of ağrı: I have not felt this particular pain before.
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ağrıyı
ağrıyı: bu singles out a particular pain, and hissetmek takes it as a direct object. The linking y keeps the stem’s final ı separate from accusative -ı.
Use ağrı: The doctor asked about his or her pain. Keep the third-person possession.
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ağrısını
ağrısını: onun identifies whose pain the doctor asked about. Start from ağrısı and add -nı for the object; ağrıyı would omit the possession.
Use ağrı to express the cause: I could not sleep at night because of the pain.
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ağrıdan
ağrıdan: the pain is the reason the speaker could not sleep. The ablative expresses that cause here; the locative ağrıda would not express the same relation.
Use the plural of ağrı with “my”: My pains decreased today.
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ağrılarım
ağrılarım: the prompt requires several pains belonging to the speaker. Put plural -lar before possessive -ım; ağrım would leave the noun singular.
Practice round
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Complete with the form of ağrı: I have not felt this particular pain before.
Use ağrı: The doctor asked about his or her pain. Keep the third-person possession.
Use ağrı to express the cause: I could not sleep at night because of the pain.
Use the plural of ağrı with “my”: My pains decreased today.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the parts in order to build this word: his or her pain (direct object)
Tap the parts in order to build this word: from my aches and pains
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Write a four-sentence fictional account with one specific pain, someone else’s pain, a cause expressed with ağrıdan, and your narrator’s plural aches. Mark possession separately from case.