Use avukat for a lawyer, regardless of gender. You will identify a particular lawyer, say who receives a message and specify whose lawyer you mean.
The idea
The final t stays before vowel endings: avukatı, avukata, avukatım. The last vowel a gives back-vowel endings; the locative and ablative are avukatta and avukattan. Possession comes before case: avukatıma means “to my lawyer”. The table separates cases from possessives; avukatları can mean their lawyer or their lawyers, depending on context.
| Function | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Bare form | avukat | avukatlar |
| Accusative: specific direct object | avukatı | avukatları |
| Dative: to | avukata | avukatlara |
| Locative: at / with | avukatta | avukatlarda |
| Ablative: from | avukattan | avukatlardan |
| Genitive: of the lawyer(s) | avukatın | avukatların |
| Possessive: my | avukatım | avukatlarım |
| Possessive: your (singular) | avukatın | avukatların |
| Possessive: his / her | avukatı | avukatları |
| Possessive: our | avukatımız | avukatlarımız |
| Possessive: your (plural / polite) | avukatınız | avukatlarınız |
| Possessive: their | avukatları | avukatları |
Examples
- Avukatı yarın arayacağım.I will call the lawyer tomorrow.
- Avukata bugün yazdım.I wrote to the lawyer today.
- Avukatım şimdi toplantıda.My lawyer is in a meeting now.
- Belgeler avukatta kaldı.The documents stayed with the lawyer.
- Avukattan kısa bir mesaj geldi.A short message arrived from the lawyer.
- Avukatın telefonu masada.The lawyer’s phone is on the table.
- Ben de avukatım.I am a lawyer too.
- Avukatlar koridorda bekliyor.The lawyers are waiting in the corridor.
- avukatlarımızato our lawyersavukatlar-ler / -lar: the plural suffixımız-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: oura-e / -a / -ye / -ya: to, towards
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Watch out
Do not automatically read avukatım as “I am a lawyer”. In Avukatım şimdi toplantıda. it is the subject, “my lawyer”; in Ben de avukatım. it states the speaker’s profession. Nor does avukat change its final consonant like some other nouns: write avukatı, not avukadı.
Try it yourself
Complete with “lawyer”: I called this lawyer yesterday.
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avukatı
avukatı: bu identifies a particular lawyer being called, so the direct object needs the accusative. Keep the final t and add dotless ı.
Complete: My lawyer is off today.
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avukatım
avukatım: benim identifies the speaker as the possessor. The person on leave is the speaker’s lawyer, so this is possession, not “I am”.
Complete: The documents stayed with the lawyer.
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avukatta
avukatta: the documents stayed with the lawyer; there is no movement towards anyone. The location ending begins with t after the noun’s final t, producing double tt.
Complete with “to our lawyers”: We sent the message to our lawyers.
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avukatlarımıza
avukatlarımıza: several lawyers belong to the “our” group and receive the message. Build plural -lar, possessive -ımız, then dative -a, in that order.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Complete with “lawyer”: I called this lawyer yesterday.
Complete: My lawyer is off today.
Complete: The documents stayed with the lawyer.
Complete with “to our lawyers”: We sent the message to our lawyers.
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: to our lawyers
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Write a short imaginary exchange about sending a message to a lawyer. Use one case form and one possessive form, then explain who each ending refers to.