I need some help with this grammar. If you use the -ca / -ce /-ça / -çe suffix with an adjective, how does it change its meaning?

For example what is the difference between the following (hopefully gramatically correct) sentences:

1. Evimizin küçükçe bir bahcesi ve bahçemizde büyükçe bir çınar ağacı var.

2. Evimizin küçük bir bahcesi ve bahçemizde büyük bir çınar ağacı var.

Any help appreciated.

This structure gives "considerably" meaning.

Küçük + çe : considerably small,

Büyük + çe : considerably big

or,

Büyükçe : Oldukça büyük

Küçükçe : Oldukça küçük

You can use "epey" insteaed of "oldukça" if you wish.

thx

turkishcobra //

Thank you Ali! So basically it doesn´t change the meaning yet put an emphasis on the word. Please correct me if I´m wrong.

Something like:

uzun: long

uzunca: for a pretty long time

Yes my friend.

But, for "for a pretty long time" say, "uzun bir zaman"

The structure you have asked is not used common, it is rarely used in daily Turkish.

thx

turkishcobra //

It´s interestingly part of the beginner language course I attended here in Turkey though. It seems to have several meanings according to these examples:

1. İnsanca yaşamak istiyoruz.

2. Sana çok dostça davrandım.

3. Aylın uzun boylu, güzelce bir kız.

My guess is it has a -ly feature like:

kibar: nice

kibarca: nicely

Görevli kütüphanedeki öğrencileri kibarca uyardı.

No, no, I didn´t mean that. "-çe/-ça" suffixes are one of most used suffixes of Turkish, but they are generally not used to give the meaning you asked.

They have a lot places that we can use and they give a lot different meanings. But we rarely use them to handle "oldukça" meaning.

thx

turkishcobra //

I see. Thank you again!

I actually had a few questions about this suffix, and i was going to post something about it today, so it´s pretty cool that it came up already

I´ve come across a few words, some in the vocabulary section here and some elsewhere and was hoping someone could explain how the -ce suffix gives them the meaning they do, here´s just some examples that I can think of right now:

düşünmek = to think ----- düşünce = thought

böyle = so, thus, in this way; such ----- böylece = in this way

ben = I, me ----- bence = in my opinion

sade = plain ---- sadece = only

and is the word önce meaning firstly, before, earlier etc. broken up this way too as in ön = front then - ce suffix is added or is this just the word

and is it the same suffix when you say a language for example Türkçe = Turkish (language), İngilizce = English (language) etc.

Can anyone please help me understand this suffix more aswell

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Actually this is a very complicated structure and I will try to explain it item by item.

"-ce/-ca/-çe/-ça" suffixes generally add "belonging" meaning when it comes nearby words.

Let´s see:

1) Expressing an idea and expressing whom it belongs to:

Bence : In my opinion, according to me

Sence : In your opinion, according to you.

Bizce : In our opinion, according to us.

2) Belonging to a language:

Türkçe : Turkish

İngizilizce : English

Arapça : Arabic

Almanca : German

3) We sometimes turn verbs into nouns:

düşünmek: to think

düşünce : the thought

aldatmak: to cheat

aldatmaca : trick, cheating

4) Sometimes we use it for priority and belonging

ön: front

önce : before, first one, front one

böyle: so, thus, in this way

böylece : belonging to this way...

5) To cement the meaning of adjective

küçük ev: small home

küçükçe ev: considerably, pretty small home

uzun yol: long way

uzunca yol: considerably, pretty long way.

iyi: good

iyice : pretty good, considerably good. iyice yıka: wash them pretty good.

6) When talking about something that is done by a group

Sınıf: class

Sınıfça : by the class, doing something with whole the class

These are what I could remember for now. If remember another meanings or different kind of usages of this structure, I am going to add here.

thx

turkishcobra //

büyükçe = quite big(smaller than big)

küçük >büyükçe > büyük >çok büyük

small > quite big > big > very big

ETT