You will use yol for road, way and route, add its endings, and say “the road to a place” the Turkish way.
The idea
yol ends in a consonant, so endings attach directly and the l never softens: yollar, yolum, yolu, yola, yolda, yoldan. The vowel o is back and rounded, which gives -lar and the rounded -u, -um, -un. To say “the road to a place”, join two nouns: the place stays bare and yol takes -u: okul yolu.
| Word | Ending | Form |
|---|---|---|
| yol | -lar | yollar |
| yol | -um | yolum |
| yol | -u | yolu |
| yol | -umuz | yolumuz |
| yol | -a | yola |
| yol | -da | yolda |
| yol | -dan | yoldan |
| yol | -u + -n + -da | yolunda |
Examples
- Yolda yağmur başladı.It started raining on the way.
- Yolun sonunda küçük bir park var.There is a small park at the end of the road.
- Babam her sabah bu yoldan geçiyor.My father goes along this road every morning.
- Okul yolunda bir kitapçı var.There is a bookshop on the way to school.okul yolu is “the school road”: the first noun stays bare and the second takes -u. Before a place ending the buffer n appears: yolunda.
- Okula giden yol dar.The road to school is narrow.To say “the road to school” with a verb, use giden (“going”) after the dative: okula giden yol. giden is a verb form you will study later; for now learn the phrase.
- Yola çıkıyoruz.We are setting off.yola çıkmak is a fixed phrase for “to set out”. yol takes the dative -a even though no named place follows.
- yollarımızdaon our roadsyollar-ler / -lar: the plural suffixımız-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourda-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
- yolunuzdaon your way (formal or plural)yolunuz-ınız / -iniz / -unuz / -ünüz: your (plural, polite)da-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
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Watch out
Do not use the dative for “the road to school”: okula yol is not Turkish. Say okul yolu or, with a verb form you will meet later, okula giden yol. Also keep yolda (on the way, where you are) apart from yola (onto the way, as in yola çıkmak, to set off).
Try it yourself
Add “my” to yol (road, way): my road.
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yolum
yolum: yol ends in a consonant, so “my” is the full -um, not just -m, and the back rounded vowel o gives -um.
Put yol (road) in the form for “on the way”: Our car broke down on the way.
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yolda
yolda: the locative says where you are, and l is voiced, so the ending starts with d; here it means “on the way”.
Combine okul (school) and yol (road) into “the school road”.
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okul yolu
okul yolu: the place stays bare in front and yol takes the third-person -u, which is what turns the two nouns into a compound.
Put yol (road) in the form the phrase “set off” needs: We set off early in the morning.
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yola
yola: yola çıkmak is a fixed phrase for setting off, so yol takes the dative -a, with no buffer after a consonant.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Add “my” to yol (road, way): my road.
Put yol (road) in the form for “on the way”: Our car broke down on the way.
Combine okul (school) and yol (road) into “the school road”.
Put yol (road) in the form the phrase “set off” needs: We set off early in the morning.
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: on our roads
Tap the parts in order to build this word: on your way (formal or plural)
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Write three sentences about your own way to school, work or a shop, using yolda, yoldan and a compound such as okul yolu or iş yolu.