You will add plural, possessive and case endings to peynir and decide whether a cheese you eat needs the accusative.
The idea
peynir never changes inside: it ends in r and its last vowel is i, so every ending is a front-vowel one: peynirler, peynirim, peynire, peynirde, peynirden, peynirin. A particular cheese as object takes -i: Peyniri aldım. Cheese in general stays bare: Peynir aldım.
| Suffix | With peynir |
|---|---|
| -ler | peynirler |
| -im | peynirim |
| -imiz | peynirimiz |
| -i | peyniri |
| -e | peynire |
| -de | peynirde |
| -den | peynirden |
| -in | peynirin |
| -siz | peynirsiz |
Examples
- Kahvaltıda peynir yiyorum.I eat cheese at breakfast.Peynir has no ending because it means cheese in general, not one particular piece.
- Peyniri sofraya koyuyorum.I am putting the cheese on the table.The -i marks a particular cheese that both speakers know. Compare Sofraya peynir koyuyorum: I put out some cheese.
- Bu peynir çok tuzlu.This cheese is very salty.
- Kedi peynirin kokusunu alıyor.The cat catches the smell of the cheese.
- Markette üç çeşit peynir var.The grocery store has three kinds of cheese.After the number and çeşit, peynir stays singular: üç çeşit peynir, not üç çeşit peynirler.
- peynirithe cheesepeyniri-i / -ı / -u / -ü: marking the definite objectHere -i is the accusative. The same form can also mean his or her cheese; the sentence decides.
- peynirimmy cheesepeynirim-im / -ım / -um / -üm / -m: my
- peynireto the cheesepeynire-e / -a / -ye / -ya: to, towards
- peynirlerimizdenfrom our cheesespeynirler-ler / -lar: the plural suffiximiz-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourden-den / -dan / -ten / -tan: from, out of
- peynirsizwithout cheesepeynirsizWithout: -siz / -sız / -suz / -süz
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Watch out
Do not put -i on every object. Peynir yiyorum says that you eat cheese in general; Peyniri yiyorum means a particular cheese that is already known. Also, peyniri can mean his or her cheese, and the sentence decides. The last vowel is i, so never peynıre or peynirlar.
Try it yourself
Add the accusative to peynir (cheese): the cheese, a particular one.
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peyniri
peyniri: the cheese is a particular one, and the last vowel i gives -i directly after r.
Add the dative to peynir (cheese): to the cheese.
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peynire
peynire: movement towards the cheese uses the dative, and the front vowel i gives -e.
Add 'my' to peynir (cheese): my cheese.
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peynirim
peynirim: r is a consonant, so -im joins without a buffer letter, with the front vowel i.
I would like a slice of cheese. Do not add an ending.
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peynir
peynir: after bir dilim the word names the food in general, so it takes no ending.
Practice round
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Add the accusative to peynir (cheese): the cheese, a particular one.
Add the dative to peynir (cheese): to the cheese.
Add 'my' to peynir (cheese): my cheese.
I would like a slice of cheese. Do not add an ending.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the parts in order to build this word: the cheese
Tap the parts in order to build this word: my cheese
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Write three sentences about cheese: one about cheese in general, one with a particular cheese as object, and one with a possessive such as peynirim.