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Order of adjectives
1.       bod
5999 posts
 08 Jan 2006 Sun 05:46 am

When multiple adjectives are used in Türkçe is there any rule about their order???

For example:
Bu yaramaz küçük bir köpek or Bu küçük yaramaz bir köpek
"This is a naughty small dog" or "This is a small naughty dog"

I know in English I would always put 'naughty' before 'small' but I don't really know why. Perhaps because a small dog is always small but a naughty dog is not necessarily always naughty!

Is there any formal rule about such ordering of adjectives in Türkçe???

2.       hexagon00
325 posts
 14 Jan 2006 Sat 10:06 pm

No there is no rule for this.But these two sentences have little differences :

U just use first what do u want to emphasize...


If u say:

Bu yaramaz küçük bir köpek

That means u r emphasizing the dogs naughtiness and that means this naughtiness could bother you.

But if you say

Bu küçük yaramaz bir köpek

That means u like that dog and its naughtiness.

But at the end they r almost same sentences...

Ok...
Take care..

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