You will build the plural, possessive and case forms of yer (place, floor) and meet the n that joins a possessive to a case ending.
The idea
Yer (place, ground, floor) has one syllable and a front vowel, so every ending is front: yerler, yerde, yere, yerden, yerim, yerimiz. The stem never changes. Yerde, yere and yerden often mean on, onto and off the ground: yere oturmak is to sit on the floor.
| Ending | Form |
|---|---|
| -ler | yerler |
| -i | yeri |
| -de | yerde |
| -e | yere |
| -den | yerden |
| -im | yerim |
| -imiz | yerimiz |
| -i + -nde | yerinde |
| -i + -ne | yerine |
| -i + -nden | yerinden |
Examples
- Bu yer çok güzel.This place is very beautiful.
- Otobüste hiç yer yok.There is no room at all on the bus.
- Kitabı yerine koydum.I put the book back in its place.Yerine is yer + -i (its) + -ne: after the possessive, the dative -e takes a joining n.
- Yerde su var.There is water on the floor.
- Çocuklar yere oturdu.The children sat on the floor.
- Telefon yerinde değil.The phone is not in its place.
- Bu yeri çok seviyorum.I like this place a lot.Bu yeri is a definite object, so yer takes the accusative -i. The same form also means 'its place', and the sentence decides.
- Evin yeri çok güzel.The location of the house is very nice.In Evin yeri, the owner ev takes the genitive -in and yer takes the possessive -i, so yeri is not an object here.
- yerimizdein our placeyerimiz-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourde-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
- yerindenfrom its placeyeri-i / -si: his, her, itsnBuffer -n-: evinde, evinden, evineden-den / -dan / -ten / -tan: from, out of
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Watch out
After the possessive -i (its place) a case ending starts with n: yerinde, yerine, yerinden, never yeride or yeriye. Also, yeri alone can be an object or 'its place': the sentence decides.
Try it yourself
Add the locative to yer (ground): on the ground.
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yerde
yerde: the last vowel e is front and r is voiced, so the locative is -de; the word then means on the ground.
Add the ending for 'my' to yer (place): my place.
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yerim
yerim: the possessive for 'my' after a consonant is -im, with the front vowel i, and the stem stays yer.
Add 'its' and then the locative to yer (place): in its place.
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yerinde
yerinde: yer + -i (its) + n + -de; the n is added because a case ending follows the possessive.
Add 'our' and then the ablative to yer (place): from our place.
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yerimizden
yerimizden: -imiz (our) comes before the case, and the ablative after a voiced z is -den.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Add the locative to yer (ground): on the ground.
Add the ending for 'my' to yer (place): my place.
Add 'its' and then the locative to yer (place): in its place.
Add 'our' and then the ablative to yer (place): from our place.
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: in our place
Tap the parts in order to build this word: from its place
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Write three sentences about where things belong in your room, using yerinde or yerine once.