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Plural / possessive question
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05 Dec 2006 Tue 10:59 pm |
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Quoting robyn  : see ur turkish will be great in no time  |
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06 Dec 2006 Wed 09:11 am |
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Quoting harikayim: Quoting Trudy: I just had another lesson of Turkish.
I forgot to ask my teacher so I do it here. Is this the same with the suffix -leri?
I mean, e.g. evleri, does that mean also: his/her houses (evler + i), their house (ev + leri) and their houses (ev + leri, not twice ler)?
I hope I made my question clear enough. Who can help me? |
Yes Trudy, you are exactly right. To be explicit you can use onun(his) or onların(their)
onun evleri - his houses
onların evi - their house
onların evleri - their houses
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onların evleri = their house or their houses (you should know which one is meant by using the context)
Usually the first part (the genitive part -onun/onların-) is dropped.
evi = his/her house
evleri = his/her houses or their house or their houses (Again you should know which one is meant by using the context)
When there is no context, you need to ask a question to clear the ambuguity.
kimin evleri?
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09 Dec 2006 Sat 03:24 pm |
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Quoting aslan2: When there is no context, you need to ask a question to clear the ambuguity.
kimin evleri? |
Why the -in suffix on kimin???
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09 Dec 2006 Sat 03:28 pm |
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Quoting bod: Quoting aslan2: When there is no context, you need to ask a question to clear the ambuguity.
kimin evleri? |
Why the -in suffix on kimin??? |
I think I can answer that (hopefully right - than I am proud.... ). Kimin eveleri as in whose houses? Possessive suffix for 'who' - second person singular.
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09 Dec 2006 Sat 06:14 pm |
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Quoting Trudy: Quoting bod: Quoting aslan2: When there is no context, you need to ask a question to clear the ambuguity.
kimin evleri? |
Why the -in suffix on kimin??? |
I think I can answer that (hopefully right - than I am proud.... ). Kimin eveleri as in whose houses? Possessive suffix for 'who' - second person singular. |
Actually -(n)in suffix is the genitive case suffix.
Ali-nin evleri
Elif-in evleri
o-nun evleri
onlar-ın evleri
sen-in evlerin
siz-in evleriniz
ben-im evlerim (-im instead of -in)
biz-im evlerimiz (-im instead of -in)
kim-in evleri
and yes
kimin = whose
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