"Mavi kitap kırmızı kitabın üzerinde."
Translation:The blue book is on the red book.
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üzerinde, just like almost all other postpositions, require possessive
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kırmızı is the adjective, it doesn't take any suffix. it is the noun, kitap, which takes the suffix
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Aha, thanks! (In Finnish also the adjective is inflected, so that's why I was confused.)
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Note that Turkish adjectives don't inflect for number, either:
büyük fil = the big elephant
büyük filler = the big elephants
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@language020 I find Turkish quite challenging, but I know I'm not allowed to complain, since I don't have to study Finnish :)
She =kız Boy=erkek Apple=elma Dog=kopek Bird=kuş Science =fen bilimleri Math=matematik Art=resim P.E=beden egitimi Book =kitap Stravbery=çilek Ket=kedi
Çalışmalar Karısık cumleleri bir yere not alarak cumle kur 1-she a ket is (örnek) Cevabı :she is a ket 2-boy a book is 3-ket a ise book can t
Can t =yapamamak Can =yapabilmek
İşallah ögrenmenizde yardımcı olur ve rica etsem yorumu begenir misiniz
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Dative (-E) is for where something is going to, not where something is.
For example, you might be able to say Ördek nereye uçuyor? - Ördek kırmızı kitabın üzerine uçuyor. "Where is the duck flying to? - The duck is flying onto the book."
Or Mavi kitabı nereye koyuyorsun? - Mavi kitabı kırmızı kitabın üzerine koyuyorum. "Where are you putting the blue book? - I am putting the blue book onto the red book."
But not for asking where the book is resting without moving -- that is what the -DE case is for.
ama günlük hayatta birine "bu nereye?" diye soruluyor. ayrıca cevap olarak "oraya" deniyorsa neden "üzerine" denmesin?
Merhaba! There is no explaination on this sentence, i have no clue whats happening in it. Something on the lines of " Blue book red book's.."what? Plz help. I am sorry for forgetting this so badly.
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üzeri is something like "its top". (I'm not sure what the base, non-possessed version of this would be.)
Remember that many locations that we would signal with prepositions use special words in Turkish -- instead of saying "in front of the book, behind the book, on top of the book, between the books", they use a generic locative plus a special noun meaning something like "place-in-front, place-behind, place-on-top, place-between" to give something like "at the books's place-in-front, at the books place-behind, at the books place-on-top, at the books' place-between".
So here we have kırmızı kitabın üzeri = the red book's place-on-top.
Plus the locative -de and a buffer consonant -n- (for adding a case suffic to a possessed form) and you get kırmızı kitabın üzerinde = at the red book's place-on-top = on top of the red book.
And what is on top of the red book? The mavi kitap.
So Mavi kitap kırmızı kitabın üzerinde "The blue book [is] on top of the red book".
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation, this was a huge help! Here, have a lingot as a token of thanks! :)
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if the word for 'upper surface' is 'üzeri', why it becomes 'üzerinde' not 'üzerisinde' given that the possessor 'kitap' is third person singular?
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I believe so, though I'm not sure whether the base (unpossessed) form is used, unlike with the synonym üst which does seem to show up without a possessive ending.
I looked for "üzer" in Google Translate, Wiktionary, and some other online resources, and I can't find it. It's tricky, because the intro of this skill also mentions that "üzeri" is the location noun. The buffer-n for the locative case suffix indicates that üzeri indeed has a suffix already, but it seems like an undocumented exception.