"Japon öğrenciler nerede?"
Translation:Where are the Japanese students?
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Am I right in thinking that these are students that are Japanese, instead of students of the Japanese language? Would the second one be "Japon öğrencisiler"?
Japon öğrenciler(adjective compound): We don't know about their lessons, we just know they are japanese.
Japonca öğrencileri(noun compund): They are people taking japanese(language) lessons.
Look at the tips and notes of the genitive lesson. Noun compound is a word formed of 2 words as portakal + su = portakal suyu (2nd noun receives the poss.ending)
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Why I must say 'the' in this sentence although there is not öğrencileri but öğrenciler?
'-i'(accusative) in Turkish comes after 'definite' direct object. But 'öğrenciler' here is not an object.
'the' in English is the definite article and should be used with definite nouns in general. So it should be 'the students'.
And if I just want to say: "Where are Japanese students" in the sense of any students, and we haven't talked about them before, but they must come from Japan ?
No, it is not an object here to receive the acc. ending and I learned from a comment of Alex that if the nationality is followed by a profession, the nationality is treated as adjectiv and therefore there is not used the poss. ending. Means you are saying Japon öğrenciler, Alman mühendis...., but you will have to say Japon halki or Alman hükümeti.
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It would be nice if this was explained in the lesson notes. I'm very confused about when to add the genitive ending.
