{"id":30536,"date":"2011-02-15T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=30536"},"modified":"2011-02-17T21:48:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:48:27","slug":"turkish-lesson-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/02\/15\/turkish-lesson-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Lesson 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkish Lesson 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c7o\u011ful Yapma \u2013 Making Plurals<\/strong><\/p>\n

You add either \u2013ler<\/strong> or \u2013lar<\/strong> at the end of the word.<\/p>\n

elma \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 elmalar
\n\u00e7ilek \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00e7ilekler
\nsandalye \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0sandalyeler
\ng\u00fcn \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 g\u00fcnler
\nmasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0masalar
\nk\u0131z \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0k\u0131zlar
\nerkek \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0erkekler
\nev \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0evler
\nsokak \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0sokaklar
\ngece \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0geceler
\ndeniz \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 denizler
\nokyanus \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 okyanuslar<\/p>\n

–ler<\/strong> harmonizes best with e,i,\u00f6,\u00fc<\/strong>
\n–lar<\/strong> harmonizes best with a,\u0131,o,u<\/strong>
\nThis is one of the rules of vowel harmony.<\/p>\n

Turkish sometimes uses plural forms where English uses singular forms, for example:<\/p>\n

iyi g\u00fcnler – have a good day
\niyi \u015fanslar – \u00a0 good luck!
\niyi ak\u015famlar \u00a0– good evening
\niyi tatiller – \u00a0 have a good holiday
\niyi kazan\u00e7lar – \u00a0wish you a good earning<\/p>\n

Sometimes Turkish uses singular form where English uses a plural. This occurs when there is a number before the noun, for example:<\/p>\n

\u0130ki g\u00fcn – two days
\nBe\u015f elma – five apples
\nD\u00f6rt bilet – four tickets
\nDoksan kilo – ninety kilograms
\nYedi sandalye – seven chairs
\n\u00dc\u00e7 k\u0131z – three girls
\nOn iki erkek – \u00a0twelve boys
\nAlt\u0131 ka\u015f\u0131k – six spoons<\/p>\n

Yeni kelimeler New Vocabulary:<\/p>\n

elma\t\t: apple
\n\u00e7ilek\t\t: strawberries
\nsandalye\t: chair
\ng\u00fcn\t\t: days
\nmasa\t\t: table
\nk\u0131z\t\t: girl
\nerkek\t\t: boy
\nev\t\t: house
\nsokak\t\t: street
\ngece\t\t: night
\ng\u00fcn\t\t: day
\ndeniz\t\t: sea
\nokyanus\t: ocean
\n\u015fans\t\t: luck
\nak\u015fam\t\t: evening
\ngece\t\t: night
\ntatil\t\t: holiday
\nkazan\u00e7\t: earning, salary
\nbilet\t\t: ticket
\nka\u015f\u0131k\t\t: spoon<\/p>\n

Say\u0131lar Numbers<\/p>\n

bir \t1 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0yirmi\t20
\niki\t2 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0otuz\t30
\n\u00fc\u00e7\t3 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0k\u0131rk\t40
\nd\u00f6rt\t4 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 elli\t50
\nbe\u015f\t5 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0altm\u0131\u015f\t60
\nalt\u0131\t6 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0yetmi\u015f\t70
\nyedi\t7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0seksen\t80
\nsekiz\t8 \u00a0 \u00a0doksan\t90
\ndokuz\t9 \u00a0y\u00fcz\t100
\non\t10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkish Lesson 3 \u00c7o\u011ful Yapma \u2013 Making Plurals You add either \u2013ler or \u2013lar at the end of the word. elma \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 elmalar \u00e7ilek \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00e7ilekler sandalye \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0sandalyeler g\u00fcn \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 g\u00fcnler masa \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":775305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4940,2597,4939,2594],"class_list":["post-30536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cogul-yapma","tag-learn-turkish","tag-making-plural","tag-turkce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}