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The possession is expressed by means of the genitive case of nouns (namely by adding "-in, "-ın, -ün, -un" , becoming respectively "-nin, -nın, -nün, -nun" when the noun ends in a vowel ).The object will always bear the 3 rd person singular of the possessive suffixes ("-i, -ı,-ü, -u" or "-si, -sı, -sü, -su" when the noun ends in a vowel). |
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You should have noticed that in Turkish, "uncle" is differently expressed according to being paternal or maternal; the same goes for "aunt". |
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When the possessive denotes a generality or expreses an undetermined sentence, it is not necessary to use the genitive case : |
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Likewise names of institutions, offices, functions, etc. follow this pattern : |
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Furthermore, some material names are used with no suffixes at all: |
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Exercise 19. - Put the following sentences into Turkish.
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Suffixes "-ci" (jee), or "-cı, -cü, -cu"; "-çi" (chee), or "-çı, -çü, -cu" |
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As you can see,by adding the above-mentioned suffixes to a large number of nouns, we can obtain the respective maker, seller, trader, etc. |
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Notice that "-ci" becomes "-çi" ("-çı, -çü, -çu") when the word ends in: "ç, f, h, k, p,s, ş, t". |
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