A wall can be painted, carry a shelf or belong to a room. Use duvar in these situations and read the whole phrase to identify what each ending does.
The idea
The stem duvar stays intact: duvara, duvarı, duvarlar, duvarımız. Its last vowel is a, so write dotless ı in duvarı, not i or u. In Duvarı boyuyoruz, duvarı is the definite object; in odanın duvarı, the same spelling marks the wall belonging to the room. With location, that second phrase becomes odanın duvarında.
| Use | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Base form | duvar | duvarlar |
| Accusative: definite object | duvarı | duvarları |
| Dative: to | duvara | duvarlara |
| Locative: on | duvarda | duvarlarda |
| Ablative: from | duvardan | duvarlardan |
| Genitive: of | duvarın | duvarların |
| My | duvarım | duvarlarım |
| Your (one person) | duvarın | duvarların |
| His / her / its | duvarı | duvarları |
| Our | duvarımız | duvarlarımız |
| Your (plural / polite) | duvarınız | duvarlarınız |
| Their (owner stated) | onların duvarı | onların duvarları |
Examples
- Biz duvarı sarıya boyuyoruz.We are painting the wall yellow.
- Bu duvarda iki raf var.There are two shelves on this wall.
- Çocuklar duvardan uzak duruyor.The children are staying away from the wall.
- Duvara küçük bir ayna astım.I hung a small mirror on the wall.
- Odanın duvarı açık mavi.The room’s wall is light blue.
- Odanın duvarında bir takvim var.There is a calendar on the room’s wall.
- Duvarlarımız çok ince.Our walls are very thin.
- Duvarın rengi ışıkta değişiyor.The wall’s colour changes in the light.
- duvarlarımızdaon our wallsduvarlar-ler / -lar: the plural suffixımız-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourda-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
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Watch out
Do not drop the possession ending when adding a case: odanın duvarda cannot mean “on the room’s wall”. Keep duvarı and add -n-da: odanın duvarında. By contrast, duvarda simply means “on the wall”; it does not name an owner.
Try it yourself
Complete with the full form of duvar: We are painting this wall white.
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duvarı
duvarı: the demonstrative bu identifies the particular wall being painted, so the direct object takes the accusative. No owner is named here.
Complete with the full form of duvar: I hung a mirror on the wall.
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duvara
duvara: the mirror is being attached to the wall. The dative marks that destination; the locative would describe where something already is.
Complete with the full form of duvar: There is a clock on the room’s wall.
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duvarında
duvarında: odanın identifies the room as the possessor. Start from duvarı and keep the linking n before the location ending.
Write “our walls” as one word.
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duvarlarımız
duvarlarımız: there is more than one wall, and they are ours. The plural comes before the possessive: duvar-lar-ımız.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Complete with the full form of duvar: We are painting this wall white.
Complete with the full form of duvar: I hung a mirror on the wall.
Complete with the full form of duvar: There is a clock on the room’s wall.
Write “our walls” as one word.
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 walls
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