You will name common places in a town, ask where one is and say where you are or where you are going.
The idea
Place words answer Nerede? (where?) with the locative: Hastane nerede? – Hastane köşede. To say you are at a place, add -de or -da (-te, -ta after a voiceless sound): bankada, postanede, okulda, müzede. To say you are going there, use the dative instead: okula, camiye, parka. The question word nerede already contains the ending, so there is no separate word for “is”.
| Place | Where? (locative) | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| banka | bankada | bank |
| postane | postanede | post office |
| hastane | hastanede | hospital |
| eczane | eczanede | pharmacy |
| okul | okulda | school |
| market | markette | supermarket |
| park | parkta | park |
| cami | camide | mosque |
| müze | müzede | museum |
| kütüphane | kütüphanede | library |
| durak | durakta | stop |
| sokak | sokakta | street |
| fırın | fırında | bakery |
| sinema | sinemada | cinema |
Examples
- Ben bugün bankada çalışıyorum.I am working at the bank today.
- Babam her sabah camiye gidiyor.My father goes to the mosque every morning.Going to a place takes the dative. Cami ends in a vowel, so the ending gets a buffer y: camiye. Being there would be camide.
- Çocuklar sokakta top oynuyor.The children are playing ball in the street.Sokak ends in the voiceless k, so the locative is -ta: sokakta, not sokakda.
- Hastane nerede?Where is the hospital?Nerede already means “where” and carries the locative, so Turkish needs no word for “is”.
- Markette taze meyve var mı?Is there fresh fruit at the supermarket?
- Fırından sıcak ekmek alıyorum.I am buying warm bread from the bakery.
- kütüphanedein the librarykütüphanede-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
- istasyonlardaat the stationsistasyonlar-ler / -lar: the plural suffixda-de / -da / -te / -ta: in, at, on
- parktanfrom the parkparktan-den / -dan / -ten / -tan: from, out of
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Watch out
Words that end in a voiceless sound keep it hard: park, market, sokak and durak take -ta or -te, so parkta, markette, sokakta, durakta, never parkda or marketde. Mind the last vowel too: cami ends in the front i, so camide, not camida.
Try it yourself
Add the locative to park: in the park.
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parkta
parkta: park ends in the voiceless k, so the ending starts with t, and the last vowel a is back, giving -ta.
Add the locative to market (supermarket): at the supermarket.
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markette
markette: the final t is voiceless, so -te, and the last vowel e is front.
The children are going to school. Add the ending for going to.
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okula
okula: going to school takes the dative; the word ends in the consonant l and the last vowel u is back, so just -a. Okulda would mean “at school” with no movement.
Add the locative to cami (mosque): in the mosque.
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camide
camide: the last vowel is the front i and the word ends in a vowel, so nothing hardens: -de.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Add the locative to park: in the park.
Add the locative to market (supermarket): at the supermarket.
The children are going to school. Add the ending for going to.
Add the locative to cami (mosque): in the mosque.
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 the library
Tap the parts in order to build this word: at the stations
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Write six sentences about your own town: where you work or study, where you shop and where you go at the weekend. Check the last sound and the last vowel of every place word.