Use bahçe to talk about growing plants, entering a garden and describing a neighbour’s outdoor space. At B1, connect ownership with location instead of choosing just one ending.
The idea
The stem bahçe keeps its final e and its internal ç. Its forms include bahçeler, bahçeye and bahçede: the last vowel selects front-vowel endings. Compare bahçeyi (the garden as a specific object) with bahçesi (his/her garden). The first uses y, the second s; bahçenin means “of the garden”, while bahçen means “your garden”.
| Form | Meaning / use |
|---|---|
| bahçe | garden; base form |
| bahçeyi | the garden (specific object) |
| bahçeye | to / into the garden |
| bahçede | in the garden |
| bahçeden | from / out of the garden |
| bahçenin | of the garden; genitive |
| bahçeler | gardens |
| bahçem | my garden |
| bahçen | your garden (singular) |
| bahçesi | his/her garden |
| bahçemiz | our garden |
| bahçeniz | your garden (plural/polite) |
| onların bahçeleri | their garden(s) |
| bahçemizde | in our garden |
| onun bahçesinde | in his/her garden |
| bahçelerimizden | from our gardens |
Examples
- Biz bahçede nane yetiştiriyoruz.We grow mint in the garden.
- Kediler bahçeye sessizce girdi.The cats entered the garden quietly.
- Bu bahçeyi birlikte düzenleyelim.Let’s arrange this garden together.
- Bahçenin kapısı rüzgârda açıldı.The garden gate opened in the wind.
- Komşumuzun bahçesinde küçük bir havuz var.There is a small pond in our neighbour’s garden.
- Bu bahçeler yazın çok renkli oluyor.These gardens become very colourful in summer.
- bahçelerimizdenfrom our gardensbahçeler-ler / -lar: the plural suffiximiz-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourden-den / -dan / -ten / -tan: from, out of
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Watch out
The ç is not the final sound: write bahçede, not bahçete. For “in his/her garden”, keep the possessive ending and add linking n before the location ending: onun bahçesinde. Plain bahçede leaves out whose garden it is.
Try it yourself
Write the plural of “garden”, without a numeral.
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bahçeler
bahçeler: several gardens are meant, with no numeral before the noun. The final e selects -ler; the earlier a does not determine this ending.
Complete with the whole word: Let’s water that garden.
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bahçeyi
bahçeyi: şu singles out the garden to water, so the object takes -i. The stem already ends in a vowel, and y separates it from that ending.
Use both possession and location: There are two apple trees in our garden.
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bahçemizde
bahçemizde: the trees are in our garden. Add -miz to the vowel-ending stem, then -de for the location; bahçemiz alone names our garden without saying “in”.
Complete: There is a small table in his or her garden.
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bahçesinde
bahçesinde: onun identifies a third-person owner. Build bahçe + -si + n + -de; replacing this with bahçenizde would change the meaning to “in your garden”.
Practice round
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Write the plural of “garden”, without a numeral.
Complete with the whole word: Let’s water that garden.
Use both possession and location: There are two apple trees in our garden.
Complete: There is a small table in his or her garden.
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: from our gardens
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Imagine a shared garden. Write where you grow something, which garden you will water, and what is in your neighbour’s garden. Use the case and possessive pages linked below to check the endings.