Komşu means a neighbour, regardless of gender. Use it to say who receives a plate, whose cat is visiting, and which neighbours supplied a ladder. The table keeps the word’s forms together; the linked suffix pages explain the wider patterns.
The idea
The stem komşu stays intact: komşular, komşuyu, komşuya, komşunun. Its final u gives komşum and komşumuz, while the plural changes the last vowel: komşularımız. Separate the definite object komşuyu from the possessive komşusu. A case ending after komşusu brings in n: komşusuna, komşusunda. In a visit context, komşuda means at the neighbour’s home.
| Form | Use / meaning |
|---|---|
| komşu | Neighbour; bare form |
| komşular | Neighbours; plural |
| komşuyu | The neighbour; definite object |
| komşuya | To the neighbour |
| komşuda | At the neighbour’s home |
| komşudan | From the neighbour |
| komşunun | Of the neighbour |
| komşum | My neighbour |
| komşun | Your neighbour; singular informal |
| komşusu | His/her neighbour |
| komşumuz | Our neighbour |
| komşunuz | Your neighbour; plural or polite |
| onların komşusu / onların komşuları | Their neighbour / their neighbours |
| komşusuna | To his/her neighbour |
| komşularımızdan | From our neighbours |
Examples
- Komşular bahçede çay içiyor.The neighbours are drinking tea in the garden.
- Bugün komşuya çorba götürüyoruz.Today we are taking soup to the neighbour.
- Biz komşuyu kapıda bekliyoruz.We are waiting for the neighbour at the door.
- Annem komşusuna bir tabak götürdü.My mother took a plate to her neighbour.
- Komşunun kedisi balkonumuzda uyuyor.The neighbour’s cat is sleeping on our balcony.
- Komşularımızdan bir merdiven aldık.We got a ladder from our neighbours.
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Watch out
Do not treat komşusu as the object form of komşu: it says whose neighbour. “We are waiting for the neighbour” needs Komşuyu bekliyoruz. To wait for his or her neighbour, use Komşusunu bekliyoruz: the possessive meaning remains and the object ending follows it.
Try it yourself
Complete with the whole word: We are waiting for the neighbour at the door. Use the definite object form of komşu.
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komşuyu
komşuyu: the person being awaited is a particular neighbour, so the verb’s object takes the accusative. The y joins the final u to the ending -u.
Write “to her neighbour” as one word: My mother took a plate to her neighbour.
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komşusuna
komşusuna: the plate goes to the mother’s neighbour. Keep komşusu for “her neighbour”, then add n and the directional -a; komşuya alone would lose “her”.
Write “from our neighbours” as one word: We got a ladder from our neighbours.
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komşularımızdan
komşularımızdan: the ladder comes from several neighbours belonging to our circle. Build komşu + lar + ımız + dan; after -lar, the possessive vowel is ı, not u.
Write “of the neighbour”: The neighbour’s cat is sleeping on our balcony.
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komşunun
komşunun: the neighbour is the cat’s owner, not the source of an object. The genitive pairs with kedisi; komşudan would instead mean “from the neighbour”.
Practice round
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Complete with the whole word: We are waiting for the neighbour at the door. Use the definite object form of komşu.
Write “to her neighbour” as one word: My mother took a plate to her neighbour.
Write “from our neighbours” as one word: We got a ladder from our neighbours.
Write “of the neighbour”: The neighbour’s cat is sleeping on our balcony.
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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Write three connected sentences about a neighbour: say whose neighbour it is, take something to that person, and receive something from your neighbours. Mark the possessive and case endings separately.