Hikâye means a story or, as a literary genre, a short story. It can also be someone’s account of an experience. Here you follow a story through editing, telling and ownership, choosing the noun form that each sentence needs.
The idea
Keep the spelling hikâye when adding endings. The final e determines the forms: hikâyeler, hikâyede, hikâyeden. In the accusative and dative, a linking y appears after that e: hikâyeyi, hikâyeye. Compare benim hikâyem (my story), onun hikâyesi (his/her story) and bizim hikâyelerimiz (our stories). In hikâyenin sonu (the end of the story), the noun is genitive; the table keeps these different jobs separate.
| Use | Form |
|---|---|
| Base form | hikâye |
| Accusative | hikâyeyi |
| Dative | hikâyeye |
| Locative | hikâyede |
| Ablative | hikâyeden |
| Genitive | hikâyenin |
| Plural | hikâyeler |
| Plural accusative | hikâyeleri |
| My story | benim hikâyem |
| Your story (singular) | senin hikâyen |
| His / her story | onun hikâyesi |
| Our story | bizim hikâyemiz |
| Your story (plural / polite) | sizin hikâyeniz |
| Their story / stories | onların hikâyeleri |
| Our stories | bizim hikâyelerimiz |
| His / her story: accusative | onun hikâyesini |
| His / her story: dative | onun hikâyesine |
| In his / her story | onun hikâyesinde |
Examples
- Editör bu hikâyeyi dikkatle okuyor.The editor is reading this story carefully.
- Bu hikâyede eski bir değirmen var.There is an old mill in this story.
- Yazar hikâyesine yeni bir son ekliyor.The writer is adding a new ending to their story.
- Hikâyenin sonunda kapı hâlâ açık.At the end of the story, the door is still open.
- Çocukluk hikâyelerimiz bazen birbirine benziyor.Our childhood stories sometimes resemble one another.
- Bu hikâyeden kısa bir oyun çıkabilir.This story could be turned into a short play.
- Herkes kendi hikâyesini anlatmak istiyor.Everyone wants to tell their own story.
- Senin hikâyen benimkinden daha kısa.Your story is shorter than mine.
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Watch out
Hikâyeyi identifies the story as a specific object; it does not say whose story it is. For “his/her story” as the object, keep the possessive part and add the case ending: hikâye-si-n-i → hikâyesini. The existing y inside the stem does not replace the linking y in hikâyeyi.
Try it yourself
Complete with hikâye: there are three short stories in this magazine.
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hikâye
hikâye: üç already supplies the number, so the counted noun remains singular. The adjective kısa between them does not change that.
Use hikâye: the editor will publish this story tomorrow.
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hikâyeyi
hikâyeyi: bu singles out the story that will be published. This direct object needs the accusative; the final e stays before the added yi.
Write “our stories”, using hikâye, to complete the sentence.
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hikâyelerimiz
hikâyelerimiz: several stories belong to “us”. Build the plural first, then add the possessive: hikâye-ler-imiz. Hikâyemiz would name one shared story.
Use hikâye: the writer read their own story aloud.
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hikâyesini
hikâyesini: kendi connects the story to the writer. Reading it makes it the object, so hikâyesi needs a further n and i; stopping at the possessive would leave the case unmarked.
Practice round
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Complete with hikâye: there are three short stories in this magazine.
Use hikâye: the editor will publish this story tomorrow.
Write “our stories”, using hikâye, to complete the sentence.
Use hikâye: the writer read their own story aloud.
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 story set in an old mill. Write one sentence about its ending, one about several stories you and a friend wrote, and one about someone reading their own story. Mark the endings that show possession and case.