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Hello!
Can anyone help me with this specific doubt I have?
I am studying turkish adjectives and read that they must always come before the noun, except of course in the cases where they act as the main clause of the whole sentence.
Ex:
Regular: Pretty Girl
Main Clause: The Girl is Pretty
However I became a little bit confused when read two specific sentences:
1 - Ver bana fincan su (Give me a glass of water)
2 - Titanic bir yolcu gemisiyd (Titanic was a passenger ship)
Why in the first sentence the writer used "fincan su" instead of "su fincan"?
In the second one the general adjective rule seems to be correctly applied, since yolcu (passengers) is qualifying gemisi (ship).
Thank you!
Erik Draganov
1. First of all "fincan" is "cup", "glass" is "bardak"
Bana bir bardak su ver.
"Bir bardak" is a quantity just like in "bir elma"= "an apple", therefore, it quantifies/qualifies the noun that comes after it, which is "su".
For my part, I can explain it like that.
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