Hastalık: illness, cases and possessive forms
One illness, two readings of hastalığı: use hastalık in cases, plurals and possessive forms, and tell a specific object from someone’s illness.
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Pain in Turkish: cases and possessive forms
Describing a recurring pain takes more than one ending: practise the Turkish noun for pain in cases, plurals and possessives, including “his or her pain” as an object.
Read and practiseMedicine in Turkish: cases, plurals and possession
Two boxes of medicine give noun endings a purpose: describe what remains, whose medicine it is, and why Turkish changes the final consonant in some forms.
Read and practisekaza: accident, cases and possessives
An accident can be the thing you discuss or an event someone experienced. Practise the Turkish noun’s cases, plurals and possessives, including traffic accidents.
Read and practiseSigorta: insurance, cases and possession
Insurance paperwork gives sigorta a practical setting: compare its case and possessive forms, and keep the compound ending when using sağlık sigortası as an object.
Read and practiseTax in Turkish: cases, plurals and possession
A tax calculation can refer to the tax, our tax or a company’s tax. Practise the Turkish forms and distinguish a specific object from a possessive.
Read and practiseMaaş: salary, cases and possession
Payday brings maaş into focus: distinguish a salary from someone’s salary, build its case and plural forms, and explain the extra n in maaşını.
Read and practiseFatura: bill and invoice forms
A bill on the table becomes faturayı or elektrik faturasını in a sentence. Practise fatura in cases, plurals and possessives without losing the compound ending.
Read and practiseBütçe: budget, cases and possession
A project budget takes several forms in Turkish: bütçeyi, bütçeye and bütçesine. Practise cases, plural and possession without changing the stem.
Read and practiseBorç: debt, borrowing and possessive forms
Whose debt is being repaid? Follow borç through borcu, borcum and borcunu, with a case table and examples that distinguish borrowing from lending.
Read and practiseFiyat: price, cases and quoted amounts
A price on a label becomes fiyatı or fiyatını in a sentence. Keep the t in fiyat, build its case and possessive forms, and distinguish fiyata from fiyattan.
Read and practiseEkonomi: economy, cases and possession
Economiyi or ekonomisini? Follow ekonomi through case, plural and possessive forms, and distinguish the economy from a country’s economy in Turkish.
Read and practiseTicaret: trade, cases and possessive forms
Trade as an activity stays singular in Turkish. Explore ticaret, ticareti and ticaretimiz, keep the final t, and distinguish trade from individual transactions.
Read and practiseŞirket: company, cases and possession
Şirkete or şirketine? Follow a company through proposals and replies, keep its final t, and distinguish case endings from possession and noun compounds.
Read and practiseToplantı: meeting, attendance and noun forms
Attending or postponing a meeting changes toplantı to toplantıya or toplantıyı. Practise its cases, plural and possessives in workplace sentences.
Read and practiseBaşvuru: application, cases and possession
Başvuruyu or başvurusu? Follow a workshop application through Turkish cases, plurals and possessives, and keep the applicant visible in başvurusunu.
Read and practiseBelge: document forms and ownership
Belgeyi names the document you scan; belgesini keeps its owner in view. Practise cases, plurals and possessives through files, notes and missing pages.
Read and practiseEhliyet: driving licence and its forms
A driving licence in a drawer brings Turkish endings into focus: practise cases, plurals and possession, and distinguish ehliyeti from ehliyetini.
Read and practiseKimlik: an ID card, an identity, and their forms
A card in your wallet or a sense of identity: follow kimlik through its cases and possessives, and distinguish kimliği from kimliğini in a sentence.
Read and practisevize: visa forms and the phrase vize başvurusu
Visa or visa application? Follow vize through cases, plurals and possession, and keep the extra ending in vize başvurusu when naming an application.
Read and practiseSınır: borders, boundaries and limits
A line on a map and a budget ceiling can both be sınır. Build its case and possessive forms, and distinguish sınırı from sınırını in a sentence.
Read and practiseHükûmet: government and its noun forms
Hükûmetin açıklaması links a government to its statement. Practise cases, plurals and possession, keep the final t, and notice the spelling with û.
Read and practiseDevlet: state, cases and possession
Devleti keeps its t: explore the Turkish word for state through fictional settings, case forms, plurals and possession, without confusing it with government.
Read and practiseSeçim: election, choice and possessive forms
An election and a personal choice share the noun seçim. Practise its cases and possessives, and see why “their choice” needs another ending when it is the object.
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