Seçim can name an election or a choice. A fictional club election and everyday decisions show how its endings identify the event, its owner and its role in a sentence.
The idea
The stem seçim stays intact: seçime, seçimde, seçimden, seçimler. Its final vowel is i, so forms such as seçimim and seçimimiz keep front vowels. Seçimi can be a specific object or mean his/her choice; onun seçimini adds an object ending after possession, with n between the two endings.
| Use | Turkish form |
|---|---|
| Base form | seçim |
| Accusative: specific object | seçimi |
| Dative: to / until | seçime |
| Locative: in / at | seçimde |
| Ablative: from | seçimden |
| Genitive: of | seçimin |
| With / by means of | seçimle |
| Plural | seçimler |
| My choice | benim seçimim |
| Your choice (singular) | senin seçimin |
| His/her choice | onun seçimi |
| Our choice | bizim seçimimiz |
| Your choice (plural/polite) | sizin seçiminiz |
| Their choices | onların seçimleri |
| Our choices | seçimlerimiz |
| His/her choice as object | onun seçimini |
Examples
- Kulüp bu seçimi yarın yapacak.The club will hold this election tomorrow.
- Bu seçimde iki aday yarışıyor.Two candidates are competing in this election.
- Seçimden sonra sonuçları birlikte açıklayacağız.After the election, we will announce the results together.
- Seçime üç gün kaldı.There are three days left until the election.
- Bu seçimin sonucu herkesi şaşırttı.The result of this election surprised everyone.
- Senin seçimine saygı duyuyorum.I respect your choice.
- Seçimlerimiz bazen arkadaşlarımızı da etkiler.Our choices sometimes affect our friends too.
- Bu iki seçenek arasında seçim yapmak zor.It is difficult to choose between these two options.
- Onun seçimini henüz bilmiyoruz.We do not know his or her choice yet.
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Watch out
An available option is a seçenek; the act or result of choosing is a seçim. Use iki seçenek arasında seçim yapmak for making a choice between two options. Do not count the options as iki seçim unless you really mean two separate choices.
Try it yourself
Complete with the correct form of seçim: there are three days left until the election.
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seçime
seçime: the three days are the time remaining until the election. The event is the endpoint, so -e is needed, not the location ending.
Write the plural of seçim (election).
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seçimler
seçimler: the prompt asks for more than one election. Add -ler to the unchanged stem; the last vowel i calls for a front vowel.
Complete with seçim: we do not know his or her choice yet.
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seçimini
seçimini: onun identifies the owner, while bilmiyoruz takes the choice as its object. Keep possessive -i, then add -ni.
Choose seçim or seçenek: it is difficult to choose between these two options.
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seçim
seçim: the two options are already named by iki seçenek. What is difficult is making one choice, expressed here by seçim yapmak.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Complete with the correct form of seçim: there are three days left until the election.
Write the plural of seçim (election).
Complete with seçim: we do not know his or her choice yet.
Choose seçim or seçenek: it is difficult to choose between these two options.
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 club election and write one sentence with seçime and one with seçimden. Then describe a personal choice using benim seçimim and make someone else’s choice the object of a sentence.