If you know Polish cases, you already look at word endings for meaning. Here you will separate number, possession and case inside one Turkish noun instead of treating its ending as one block.
The idea
Compare Polish “w naszych torbach” with çantalarımızda: çanta + -lar + -ımız + -da. In Polish, the ending of “torbach” marks both plural and locative; Turkish gives plural, “our” and location separate places, in that order. Build the noun first and add the case after the possessive suffix. The linked suffix pages cover the other forms.
| Turkish | Meaning |
|---|---|
| çantalarımızda | in our bags |
| odalarımızdan | from our rooms |
| defterlerimizi | our notebooks (as a definite direct object) |
| yeni çantalarımızda | in our new bags |
Examples
- Defterler çantalarımızda duruyor.The notebooks are in our bags.
- Biz odalarımızdan çıkıyoruz.We are leaving our rooms.
- Yeni defterlerimizi açıyoruz.We are opening our new notebooks.
- çantalarımızdain our bagsçantalar-ler / -lar: the plural suffixımız-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourda-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
- odalarımızdanfrom our roomsodalar-ler / -lar: the plural suffixımız-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ourdan-den / -dan / -ten / -tan: from, out of
- defterlerimiziour notebooks (as a definite direct object)defterler-ler / -lar: the plural suffiximiz-imiz / -ımız / -umuz / -ümüz: ouri-i / -ı / -u / -ü: marking the definite object
- yeni çantalarımızdain our new bags
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Watch out
Do not carry Polish agreement into a Turkish adjective before a noun. In Polish “w naszych nowych torbach”, “nowych” changes with the noun; in yeni çantalarımızda, yeni stays unchanged. Put the number, possession and case on the noun.
Try it yourself
Starting from çanta, write “in our bags” as one word.
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çantalarımızda
çantalarımızda: -lar gives several bags and -ımız makes them ours. The last vowel is now ı and the final consonant is voiced z, so location takes -da.
Starting from oda, write “from our rooms” as one word.
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odalarımızdan
odalarımızdan: the rooms are the starting point of the movement, so the last suffix is -dan. Ending at odalarımız would say only “our rooms”, without “from”.
Complete “We are opening our new notebooks”. Use defter with the necessary suffixes.
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defterlerimizi
defterlerimizi: the notebooks belong to us and are the definite object of opening. The final -i marks that object after -imiz; defterlerimiz alone only says “our notebooks”.
Use yeni and çanta to write “in our new bags”.
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yeni çantalarımızda
yeni çantalarımızda: yeni describes the bags but does not agree with them in number or case. The noun already carries “our”, plural and location, so no ending is added to the adjective.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Starting from çanta, write “in our bags” as one word.
Starting from oda, write “from our rooms” as one word.
Complete “We are opening our new notebooks”. Use defter with the necessary suffixes.
Use yeni and çanta to write “in our new bags”.
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 bags
Tap the parts in order to build this word: from our rooms
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Match Polish “w naszych torbach” and “z naszych pokoi” to the Turkish examples. Mark each suffix boundary, then add yeni without changing it. Continue with the linked suffix-order page.