Ekonomi can name an economy or economics as a subject. Here you will describe what a text discusses and whose economy it refers to, without making claims about current events.
The idea
The final i belongs to ekonomi and stays in its forms: ekonomiyi, ekonomiye, ekonominin. It selects front-vowel endings, despite the earlier o: ekonomiler, ekonomimiz. There is no consonant softening. Compare ekonomiyi anlatmak (to describe the economy) with ülkenin ekonomisini anlatmak (to describe the country’s economy): ekonomisi takes -ni when it becomes the definite object. As a subject of study, the bare noun appears in ekonomi okumak (to study economics).
| Function | Form |
|---|---|
| Base form | ekonomi |
| Accusative: definite object | ekonomiyi |
| Dative | ekonomiye |
| Locative | ekonomide |
| Ablative | ekonomiden |
| Genitive | ekonominin |
| Plural | ekonomiler |
| My economy | ekonomim |
| Your economy (singular) | ekonomin |
| His/her/its economy | ekonomisi |
| Our economy | ekonomimiz |
| Your economy (plural/polite) | ekonominiz |
| Their economies | onların ekonomileri |
| His/her/its economy as object | ekonomisini |
| In his/her/its economy | ekonomisinde |
Examples
- Bu dergi ekonomiyi sade bir dille anlatıyor.This magazine explains the economy in plain language.
- Panelde bugün ekonomiye odaklanıyoruz.At the panel discussion today, we are focusing on the economy.
- Bu yazı ekonomiden değil, sanattan söz ediyor.This article talks about art, not the economy.
- Araştırma, iki küçük ekonomiyi karşılaştırıyor.The study compares two small economies.
- Ülkenin ekonomisinde önemli bir değişim var.There is a significant change in the country’s economy.
- Raporda dünya ekonomisinin yapısı inceleniyor.The structure of the world economy is examined in the report.
- Ekonomimiz hakkında kısa bir sunum hazırladık.We prepared a short presentation about our economy.
- Üniversitede ekonomi okumak istiyorum.I want to study economics at university.
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Watch out
Do not treat the final i in the dictionary form as a possessive ending. Ekonomisi means its economy; ekonomiyi marks the economy as an object. In ülkenin ekonomisinde, keep the possessive form and the linking n: simply writing ekonomide loses the possessive marking.
Try it yourself
Complete: This magazine explains the economy. Use ekonomi as a definite object.
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ekonomiyi
ekonomiyi: the magazine explains a definite topic, so the noun is an object; y joins the stem’s final i to the accusative i.
Complete: We are examining the country’s economy. Use ekonomi.
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ekonomisini
ekonomisini: ülkenin supplies the possessor, while inceliyoruz makes the whole phrase an object. Start with ekonomisi and add -ni.
Write the plural of ekonomi: economies.
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ekonomiler
ekonomiler: the prompt asks for more than one economic system. The stem ends in i, so the plural has e, even though the word contains o earlier.
Complete “our economy” using ekonomi.
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ekonomimiz
ekonomimiz: bizim identifies “our”; attach -miz to the stem’s existing i. There is no extra vowel between them.
Practice round
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Complete: This magazine explains the economy. Use ekonomi as a definite object.
Complete: We are examining the country’s economy. Use ekonomi.
Write the plural of ekonomi: economies.
Complete “our economy” using ekonomi.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Invent a country for a classroom presentation. Write one sentence naming its economy, one making that economy the object of a verb, and one comparing two economies. Underline the endings.