Hastane means hospital. Use it to locate a building, describe where someone works and name a destination. A possessive can express a connection: “our hospital” need not mean that we own it.
The idea
The final e controls the endings: hastaneler, hastanede, hastanemiz. The stem stays intact; there is no consonant to soften. Compare hastaneyi (the hospital as object) with hastanesi (his/her hospital). In çocuk hastanesi (children’s hospital), -si marks the compound; a following case uses n: çocuk hastanesine.
| Use | Form |
|---|---|
| Base: hospital | hastane |
| Plural: hospitals | hastaneler |
| Accusative: the hospital as object | hastaneyi |
| Dative: to the hospital | hastaneye |
| Locative: at the hospital | hastanede |
| Ablative: from the hospital | hastaneden |
| Genitive: of the hospital | hastanenin |
| My hospital | hastanem |
| Your hospital (singular) | hastanen |
| His/her hospital | hastanesi |
| Our hospital | hastanemiz |
| Your hospital (plural or polite) | hastaneniz |
| Their hospital / their hospitals | onların hastanesi / onların hastaneleri |
| Our hospitals | hastanelerimiz |
| At our hospital | hastanemizde |
| To the children’s hospital | çocuk hastanesine |
Examples
- Bugün hastaneye otobüsle gidiyorum.Today I am going to the hospital by bus.
- Annem bu hastanede çalışıyor.My mother works at this hospital.
- Babam dün hastaneden döndü.My father returned from the hospital yesterday.
- Haritada iki hastane var.There are two hospitals on the map.
- Hastanenin bahçesinde küçük bir kafe var.There is a small café in the hospital garden.
- Bu otobüs çocuk hastanesine gidiyor.This bus goes to the children’s hospital.
- Hastanemiz denize çok yakın.Our hospital is very close to the sea.
- hastanelerimizour hospitalshastaneler-ler / -lar: the plural suffiximiz-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: our
- hastanesindeat his/her hospitalhastanesi-i / -si: his, her, itsnBuffer -n-: evinde, evinden, evinede-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
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Watch out
Do not add y after the compound form: çocuk hastanesine, not çocuk hastanesiye. The ordinary noun does take y: hastaneye. The expression names a type of hospital, so -si does not mean that one child owns it.
Try it yourself
Fill the gap: I am going to the hospital this evening.
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hastaneye
hastaneye: gidiyorum gives a destination here. The noun ends in a vowel, so y links it to the dative -e; hastanede would locate the action instead.
Use the plural: The hospitals in this city are big.
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hastaneler
hastaneler: the sentence describes several hospitals without a number before the noun, so the plural is needed. With a number, use the singular: iki hastane.
Complete with “our hospital”: Our hospital is close to the sea.
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hastanemiz
hastanemiz: bizim identifies “us” as the group associated with the hospital, so use -miz after the final vowel. There is one hospital; hastanelerimiz would mean several.
Fill the gap: I work at the children’s hospital.
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hastanesinde
hastanesinde: çalışıyorum asks for the workplace here. Keep the compound ending of çocuk hastanesi, then add the linking n and the locative -de.
Practice round
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Fill the gap: I am going to the hospital this evening.
Use the plural: The hospitals in this city are big.
Complete with “our hospital”: Our hospital is close to the sea.
Fill the gap: I work at the children’s hospital.
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Tap the parts in order to build this word: our hospitals
Tap the parts in order to build this word: at his/her hospital
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Write three sentences about an imaginary hospital: going there, working there and its garden. Then change the destination to a children’s hospital and check the ending.