Mahkeme means “court”. Use its forms to describe a visit or a court in an imagined novel. The table shows both case endings and possessives; the examples make the relationship between a town and its court explicit.
The idea
The stem mahkeme stays intact: its final e gives mahkemeler, mahkemede and mahkememiz. Before the accusative and dative, y joins the vowels: mahkemeyi, mahkemeye. In kasabanın mahkemesi (the town’s court), -si marks the possessive relationship. As a definite object, this becomes kasabanın mahkemesini: keep -si and add -n-i.
| Function / meaning | Turkish form |
|---|---|
| Base: court | mahkeme |
| Accusative: the court as object | mahkemeyi |
| Dative: to court | mahkemeye |
| Locative: at court | mahkemede |
| Ablative: from court | mahkemeden |
| Genitive: of the court | mahkemenin |
| Plural: courts | mahkemeler |
| Possessive: my court | mahkemem |
| Possessive: your court (singular) | mahkemen |
| Possessive: his/her/its court | mahkemesi |
| Possessive: our court | mahkememiz |
| Possessive: your court (plural/polite) | mahkemeniz |
| Possessive: their courts | mahkemeleri |
| Possessive + accusative: the town’s court as object | kasabanın mahkemesini |
Examples
- Bugün mahkemeye birlikte gittik.Today we went to court together.
- Sabah mahkemede uzun süre bekledik.We waited at court for a long time in the morning.
- Öğleden sonra mahkemeden ayrıldık.We left the court in the afternoon.
- Bu fotoğraf, eski mahkemeyi dışarıdan gösteriyor.This photograph shows the old court from outside.
- Bu mahkemelerin binaları birbirine benziyor.The buildings of these courts look alike.
- Kasabanın mahkemesi romanda sık sık geçiyor.The town’s court is frequently mentioned in the novel.
- Bu bölüm, kasabanın mahkemesini ayrıntılı biçimde anlatıyor.This chapter describes the town’s court in detail.
- mahkemelerimizdein our courtsmahkemeler-ler / -lar: the plural suffiximiz-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourde-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
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Watch out
Do not replace mahkemeyi with mahkemesi just because both end in i. The first marks a definite object; the second links the court to someone or something. When that linked court is the object, use mahkemesini, not mahkemesiyi.
Try it yourself
Complete with the destination form: Tomorrow we will go to court.
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mahkemeye
mahkemeye: the court is the destination of gideceğiz (we will go). The final vowel needs linking y before the dative -e; mahkemede would describe a location.
Complete the definite object: The illustrator drew the court in the novel.
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mahkemeyi
mahkemeyi: the illustrator draws a particular court, the one in the novel. That makes it a definite object of çizdi; no owner is expressed, so no possessive ending is needed.
Use the plural genitive: The buildings of these courts look alike.
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mahkemelerin
mahkemelerin: the buildings belong to several courts. The plural mahkemeler takes genitive -in to connect it to binaları (their buildings).
Keep the possessive relationship and mark the object: The author described the town’s court.
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mahkemesini
mahkemesini: kasabanın already identifies the town as the related entity, so the noun keeps possessive -si. The whole phrase is the object of anlattı; n links that form to accusative -i.
Practice round
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Complete with the destination form: Tomorrow we will go to court.
Complete the definite object: The illustrator drew the court in the novel.
Use the plural genitive: The buildings of these courts look alike.
Keep the possessive relationship and mark the object: The author described the town’s court.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Tap the parts in order to build this word: in our courts
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Invent a town for a story. Write one sentence about going to its court and another describing the town’s court as an object. Underline the case ending and, where present, the possessive ending.