Use balkon for a balcony, then choose an ending for going out onto it, sitting on it or looking from it. The table also shows whose balcony you mean and how to refer to several balconies.
The idea
The stem balkon keeps its final n: balkona, balkonda, balkondan. Its last vowel o gives u in balkonu and balkonum. After the plural -lar, harmony follows the new last vowel a: balkonlarımız, our balconies. Case comes after possession: balkonlarımızda, on our balconies.
| Form | Meaning or use |
|---|---|
| balkon | balcony; base form |
| balkonlar | balconies; plural |
| balkonu | the balcony; specific direct object |
| balkona | onto the balcony; destination |
| balkonda | on the balcony; location |
| balkondan | from the balcony |
| balkonun | of the balcony; genitive |
| benim balkonum | my balcony |
| senin balkonun | your balcony; one person |
| onun balkonu | his or her balcony |
| bizim balkonumuz | our balcony |
| sizin balkonunuz | your balcony; plural or polite |
| onların balkonları | their balconies; plural reading |
| onun balkonunu | his or her balcony; direct object |
| balkonlarımızda | on our balconies |
Examples
- Sabahları balkonda kahvaltı yapıyoruz.We have breakfast on the balcony in the mornings.
- Kedimiz balkondan bahçeyi izliyor.Our cat watches the garden from the balcony.
- Bu akşam balkona çıkalım.Let’s go out onto the balcony this evening.
- Balkonu yağmurdan sonra temizliyorum.I clean the balcony after the rain.
- Onun balkonunu sarı çiçeklerle süsledik.We decorated his or her balcony with yellow flowers.
- Yeni evimizin balkonları çok dar.The balconies of our new home are very narrow.
- Balkonumuzun kapısı açık.Our balcony door is open.
- balkonlarımızdaon our balconiesbalkonlar-ler / -lar: the plural suffixımız-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourda-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
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Watch out
Balkonu can be a specific object or mean his/her balcony. Compare Balkonu temizliyorum with Onun balkonu dar. To make his/her balcony the object, keep the possessive ending and add -n-u: Onun balkonunu süsledik. Using onun balkonu there leaves the object ending missing.
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Complete with the destination: Let’s go out onto the balcony.
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balkona
balkona: çıkalım proposes going out onto a destination here, so the noun needs -a. Balkonda would locate an activity on the balcony.
Complete with the specific object: I am cleaning the balcony.
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balkonu
balkonu: the cleaning acts on a particular balcony. The object ending is -u after o; no owner is specified in this sentence.
Complete with his or her balcony as the object: We decorated his or her balcony.
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balkonunu
balkonunu: onun identifies the owner. The first u marks possession, and the following n links it to the object ending -u required by süsledik.
Use one word: There are flowers on our balconies.
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balkonlarımızda
balkonlarımızda: there is more than one balcony, they are ours, and the flowers are on them. Build balkon-lar-ımız-da in that order; -ımız follows the a of the plural.
Practice round
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Complete with the destination: Let’s go out onto the balcony.
Complete with the specific object: I am cleaning the balcony.
Complete with his or her balcony as the object: We decorated his or her balcony.
Use one word: There are flowers on our balconies.
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: on our balconies
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Describe a real or imagined balcony in three sentences: go onto it, do something on it, and decorate someone else’s balcony. Then change our balcony to our balconies and add the location ending.