Kültür means culture. Use it to discuss a local culture, compare several cultures or describe food culture. The examples show how the same noun changes when it is an object, a source or part of a compound.
The idea
The stem kültür stays unchanged: kültürü, kültüre, kültürde, kültürden. Its final ü gives kültürüm and kültürümüz, but the plural introduces e: kültürlerimiz. In yemek kültürü (food culture), the final -ü marks the noun compound; when the whole phrase is a specific object, use yemek kültürünü.
| Use | Turkish form |
|---|---|
| Base form | kültür |
| Accusative: specific object | kültürü |
| Dative: to | kültüre |
| Locative: in | kültürde |
| Ablative: from | kültürden |
| Genitive: of | kültürün |
| With | kültürle |
| Plural | kültürler |
| My culture | benim kültürüm |
| Your culture (singular) | senin kültürün |
| His/her culture | onun kültürü |
| Our culture | bizim kültürümüz |
| Your culture (plural/polite) | sizin kültürünüz |
| Their cultures | onların kültürleri |
| Our cultures | kültürlerimiz |
| Food culture as object | yemek kültürünü |
Examples
- Bu sergi farklı kültürleri tanıtıyor.This exhibition introduces different cultures.
- Biz yerel kültüre ilgi duyuyoruz.We are interested in the local culture.
- Bu kitap yemek kültürünü anlatıyor.This book describes food culture.
- Bu kültürden birçok hikâye öğrendik.We learned many stories from this culture.
- Kültürün zamanla değişmesi beni şaşırtmıyor.It does not surprise me that culture changes over time.
- Kültürümüzdeki değişimleri birlikte tartışıyoruz.We are discussing the changes in our culture together.
- kültürlerimizdenfrom our cultureskültürler-ler / -lar: the plural suffiximiz-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourden-den / -dan / -ten / -tan: from, out of
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Watch out
Do not treat every kültürü as an accusative. In Bu kültürü tanıyoruz, it marks the object; in yemek kültürü, it completes the compound. To make that compound an object, keep its ending and add -nü: Yemek kültürünü araştırıyoruz.
Try it yourself
Complete with kültür: we want to get to know this culture closely.
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kültürü
kültürü: bu points to a particular culture, and that culture is what we want to get to know. The direct object therefore needs the accusative -ü; no owner is mentioned.
Complete with kültür: we are interested in a different culture.
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kültüre
kültüre: ilgi duymak directs interest towards something and takes the dative. The different culture is the target of that interest, so use -e.
Complete with kültür: we are researching the food culture of this region.
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kültürünü
kültürünü: the thing being researched is the whole compound yemek kültürü. Retain its final -ü and add the accusative through linking n; bare kültürü would leave the object marking incomplete here.
Write “our cultures” as one word using kültür.
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kültürlerimiz
kültürlerimiz: more than one culture calls for -ler, and “our” adds -imiz. Its vowel follows the e in the plural ending, not the earlier ü of the stem.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Complete with kültür: we want to get to know this culture closely.
Complete with kültür: we are interested in a different culture.
Complete with kültür: we are researching the food culture of this region.
Write “our cultures” as one word using kültür.
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Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the parts in order to build this word: from our cultures
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Write a short description of an imaginary exhibition. Include one specific culture as an object, several cultures with kültürler and a sentence about food culture using yemek kültürünü.