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Navigation Home page Basic Turkish  Alphabet and Pronounciation Basic Information Grammer Vowel Harmony Vowel Harmony 2 Consonant Changes Suffixes Plurals Personal Pronouns Possession 'To Be' Positive Tense 'To Be' Negative Tense Present Continuous Tense Past Continuous Tense Simple Present Positive Tense Simple Present Negative Tense Simple Past Tense Future Tense 'There is' and 'There isn't' 'Let....' 'If.....' Apparently Necessity   Possessive Pronouns   In Turkish, possession is shown by adding a suffix onto the noun. Possissive adjectives before the noun can also be used, but are mostly used for special emphasis. However, it is very important that these are learnt because it can make learning the suffixes easier.   These adjectives are : Benim - My Senin - Your (familiar or singular) Onun - His/her/Its Bizim - Our Sizin - Your (formal or plural) Onlarn - Their   Suffixes Following vowel harmony, the suffixes change depending on what the last vowel was. This table shows which suffix should be used for which vowels, for example if the noun is 'el' (hand), the last vowel is an 'e' and therefore 'my hand' would be 'elim'. The letters in brackets are only used if the last letter is a consonant, apart from 'onun/his/her/its' where the 's/ ' is used if the last letter is a vowel. last vowel Benim Senin Onun Bizim Sizin Onlaryn e/i (i)m (i)n (s)i (i)miz (i)niz leri a/ ()m ()n ()i ()miz ()niz lar o/u (u)m (u)n (s)u (u)nuz (u)nuz lar ö/ü (ü)m (ü)n (s)ü (ü)müz (ü)nüz leri   Examples Look at the table and see if you can work out how these suffixes fit with the nouns.   my car - (benim) arabam your house - (senin) evin his garden - (onun) bahçesi our friend - (bizim) arkadam z your mother - (sizin) anneniz their cat - (onlaryn) kedileri   For some words, adding a suffix starting with a vowel changes the last consonant of a noun. These letters that change are k-, p-b, and ç-c. So, for the word 'köpek' (dog), 'my dog' would become 'benim köpeim'. For the word 'Dolap' (cubard), 'your cubard' would become 'senin dolab n'. If the noun is a plural, the possessive suffix always comes after the plural suffix, for example 'my cars' would be 'benim araba=lar-m'.   To learn how to say 'i have .......' or 'you have....' etc click here   Test yourself!   Learn these words and then complete the sentences. hand - el house - ev iron - ütü cat - kedi eye - göz newspaper - gazete sugar - eker hata - mistake   1) my eye - benim göz_______ 2) his iron - onun ütü_______ 3) their mistake - onlar n hata______ 4) your (singular) cat - senin kedi______ 5) your (plural) house - sizin ev_______ 6) our sugar - bizim eker ________   1) his eye - onun__ _________ 2) our house - ________ _________ 3) my cats - _________ __________ 4) your (singular) hand - ________ _________ 5) your (plural) newspaper - _________ __________ 6) their iron - _________ _________   Translate these into either English or Turkish 1) benim gözlerim 2) his hands 3) onlar n evleri 4) sizin hatan z 5) onun ütüsü 6) your (singular) sugar     Answers   1) my eye - benim gözüm 2) his iron - onun ütüsü 3) their mistake - onlar n hatalar 4) your (singular) cat - senin kedin 5) your (plural) house - sizin eviniz 6) our sugar - bizim ekerimiz 1) his eye - onun gözü 2) our house - bizim evimiz 3) my cats - benim kedilerim 4) your (singular) hand - senin elin 5) your (plural) newspaper - sizin gazeteniz 6) their iron - onlarn ütüleri   1) benim gözlerim - my eyes 2) his hands - onun elleri 3) onlar n evleri - their house 4) sizin hatan z - your mistake 5) onun ütüsü - his iron 6) your (singular) sugar - senin ekerin learn-turkish@hotmail.com   Useful Info Useful Words 1 Useful Words 2 (inc. Verbs) Useful Phrases Numbers Days, Months and Seasons Telling the time Other  About Me Forum Guestbook Links Search This Site E-Mail Me! Useful Verbs  gelmek - to come          gitmek - to go             kalmak - to stay                    yemek - to eat             sevmek - to love         yapmak - to do            olmak - to be      o?renmek - to learn           ö?retmek - to teach         uyumak - to sleep            istemek - to want                y$samak - to live

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