Adjectives and Adverbs

İn Turkish 'bir' (a, an) is written before noun.İn English a,an is written before qualification (beautiful, wooden, white etc) adjectives .
güzel yeşil bir köşk yeşil=green köşk=pavilion /kiosk
a beautiful green pavillion (kiosk)
tüm güzel sarı güller =all beautiful yellow roses. sarı=yellow gül=rose tüm=all

İn Turkish language adjectives are written before noun as in English language.
(O) güzel bir kız(dır) She is a beautiful girl.

İn Turkish language adverbs are written before verbs. İn English language, adverbs are written after verbs.
(Ben) Hızlı koşarım = İ run fast

To Turn Nouns into Adjectives
.
To turn nouns into pozitive adjectives we add li,lı,lu,lü suffixes to noun.
if the last vowel is
a,ı = lı
e,i = li
o,u = lu
ö,ü = lü
Noun Forms Adjective Form
güç=strength ...................... güçlü=strong
yaprak=leaf ...................... yapraklı =leafy
tuz=salt ...................... tuzlu=salty
ses=noise/voice/sound ...................... sesli=noisy
renk=colour ......................renkli=coloured
yatak=bed ...................... yataklı=furnished with a bed
şeker=sugar ...................... şekerli=sugary
yaş=age ...................... yaşlı=old

To turn nouns into negative adjectives we add siz,sız,suz,süz suffixes to noun.
if the last vowel is
a,ı = sız
e,i = siz
o,u = suz
ö,ü = süz

Noun Forms Adjective Form
güç=strength ...................... güçsüz=weak
yaprak=leaf ...................... yapraksız =without leaf
tuz=salt ...................... tuzsuz=unsalted
ses=noise/voice/sound ...................... sessiz=noisless /silent/voiceless/quiet
renk=colour ...................... renksiz=colourless
yatak=bed ...................... yataksız=without furnishing of bed
şeker=sugar ...................... şekersiz=unsugared

Comparing Adjectives and Adverbs
İn Turkish, comparing and superlative are written before adjective and adverb.

kadar= as.........as:
(Sen) Onun kadar uzunsun. = You are as tall as him. (adjective tall=uzun)

(Biz) Onlar kadar hızlı koşarız = We run as fast as them. (adverb fast=hızlı

den/dan/tan,ten Daha = More than /er than /ier than

İf the last vowel before den/dan/tan/ten is front vowel (e,i,ö,ü) it must be den or ten
İf the last vowel before den/dan/tan/ten is back vowel (a,ı,o,u) it must be dan or tan

if the last consonant before den/dan/tan/ten is sharp consonant (ç,f,t,h,s,k,p,ş it must be ten,tan
for others it must be den,dan

(Sen) Çiçeklerden daha güzelsin = You are more beautiful than flowers
(Sen) bu çiçekten daha güzelsin =You are more beautiful than this flower

Biz onlardan daha hızlı koşarız =We run faster than them.

En =The Most/ the...est/ the.... iest

(Sen) sınıfımızdaki en uzun kızsın.= You are the tallest girl in our class.
(Ben) Dünyadaki en yakışıklı erkeğim = İ am the most handsome man in the World.

yakışıklı=handsome
erkek=man it took -im suffix so k turned into ğ to pronounce it easier.

En hızlı ben koşarım = İ run fastest

İn Turkish, to emphasize a word, we bring it before verb. so here ''ben'' came before verb to emphasize ''ben''

The way you explain Turkish grammar is more than clear... thank you so much for helping us who are not good at turkish. I'd like to have a turkish teacher like you....

Thanks ever so, I've copied and pasted all your sections this evening and printed it to keep reading over and over.
Its great to be able to have all this so clearly explained

İ am Turk.İ wrote them in rtf file. İ have prepared them on my mind and i am sending them to Turkish learners on my msn.To help lots of Turkish learners i copied and pasted them to this forum.Actually rtf files are better because i made them coloured.So it is more understandible

http://rapidshare.com/files/25015516/Desktop.rar.html

here all files that i prepared.they r colourful rtf files.you can open them on wordpad.it is only 12 kb.

Thank you this is very helpful