Fotoğraf means photograph. Use it to describe an image, put prints in an album and say whose pictures you have. For taking a photograph, the usual expression is fotoğraf çekmek.
The idea
The stem keeps both ğ and the final f: fotoğrafı, fotoğrafım. Its last vowel a gives fotoğraflar and fotoğrafımız, with dotless ı. After the bare stem, the voiceless f calls for t in fotoğrafta and fotoğraftan. Compare the plural fotoğraflarda, where the location ending follows r. The table gives this noun’s forms; the related suffix lessons explain the general patterns.
| Use | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Base form | fotoğraf | fotoğraflar |
| Accusative: specific object | fotoğrafı | fotoğrafları |
| Dative: to | fotoğrafa | fotoğraflara |
| Locative: in the picture | fotoğrafta | fotoğraflarda |
| Ablative: from | fotoğraftan | fotoğraflardan |
| Genitive: of | fotoğrafın | fotoğrafların |
| My | fotoğrafım | fotoğraflarım |
| Your (one person) | fotoğrafın | fotoğrafların |
| His / her / its | fotoğrafı | fotoğrafları |
| Our | fotoğrafımız | fotoğraflarımız |
| Your (plural / polite) | fotoğrafınız | fotoğraflarınız |
| Their (owner stated) | onların fotoğrafı | onların fotoğrafları |
Examples
- Fotoğrafları albüme koydum.I put the photographs in the album.
- Dün fotoğrafa baktım.I looked at the photograph yesterday.
- Bu fotoğrafta gülümsüyoruz.We are smiling in this photograph.
- Sahilde üç fotoğraf çektim.I took three photographs at the seaside.
- Fotoğrafın köşesi yırtılmış.The corner of the photograph is torn.
- Annemin fotoğrafında eski bir köprü var.There is an old bridge in my mother’s photograph.
- Bu fotoğraftan iki kopya istiyorum.I want two copies of this photograph.
- Fotoğraflarımızı yeni bir klasöre kaydettim.I saved our photographs to a new folder.
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Watch out
Fotoğrafta means in the photograph; onun fotoğrafında means in his or her photograph. Keep the possessive -ı and the linking n before the case ending. Also, fotoğrafı can be a specific object or mean his/her photograph: the sentence tells you which.
Try it yourself
Fill in the full form of fotoğraf: There are two cats in this photograph.
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fotoğrafta
fotoğrafta: the cats are visible in this image, so the blank needs location. The ending attaches directly to the final f, giving -ta; no owner is named.
Fill in the full form of fotoğraf: There is an old bridge in my mother’s photograph.
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fotoğrafında
fotoğrafında: annemin identifies whose photograph it is. Start from annemin fotoğrafı, then add linking n and -da to locate the bridge within that image.
Write “our photographs” as one Turkish word.
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fotoğraflarımız
fotoğraflarımız: there is more than one photograph and the owners are “we”. Put plural -lar before possessive -ımız; fotoğrafımız would name one photograph.
Fill in the full form of fotoğraf: Put that photograph in the album.
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fotoğrafı
fotoğrafı: şu points to a particular photograph that the listener should put in the album. It is the specific object of koy, so the final -ı marks the object here, not an owner.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Fill in the full form of fotoğraf: There are two cats in this photograph.
Fill in the full form of fotoğraf: There is an old bridge in my mother’s photograph.
Write “our photographs” as one Turkish word.
Fill in the full form of fotoğraf: Put that photograph in the album.
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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Choose an imaginary album. Write one sentence about what is in a photograph, one about someone else’s photograph and one about your shared photographs. Check the endings against the table.