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10.       bod
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 17 Jan 2006 Tue 12:38 pm

Quoting erdinc:


Do you keep lists of the suffixes somewhere easy to access? You can use the notepad under private messages button.



I cannot get the notepad to work......
I cannot use 'view' mode, only edit. And if I save that and then look at it again it messes up the Türkçe characters

But no - I don't currently keep a list of suffixes except in my head :-S

11.       bod
5992 posts
 17 Jan 2006 Tue 01:03 pm

Quoting erdinc:


Possessive Suffixes after a consonant
my – benim -ım -im -um -üm
your – senin -ın -in -un -ün
his/her/its – onun -ı -i -u -ü -
our – bizim -ımız -imiz -umuz -ümüz
your – sizin -ınız -iniz -unuz -ünüz
their – onların -ları -leri

Possessive Suffixes after a vowel
my – benim -m
your – senin -n
his/her/its – onun -sı -si –su -sü
our – bizim -mız- miz -muz -müz
your – sizin -nız -niz -nuz -nüz
their – onların -ları -leri



Personally I find this approach very confusing.......
I find I easier to understand, and perhaps more importantly remember, the methodology from this lesson which treats the suffix as being the same whether it follows a vowel or consonant. The same result is achieved as above by treating the suffix as being the same but dropping the initial vowel or adding a fusion consonant as appropriate:

Examples:
my book - kitap-ım - kitapım
my car - araba-ım - arabam ('ı' is dropped)

his book - kitap-ı - kitapı
his car - araba-ı - arabası ('s' is treated as a fusion consonant)

Of course whether you treat the suffixes as being really different for following vowels/consonants or whether you treat them as being modified makes no practical difference as the result is the same. Personally I find remembering one suffix and a number of rules for modification easier to rememeber.

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