Turkish/Plural
< Turkish
Learning Goals edit
This lesson will teach you how to make nouns in Turkish plural.
Making Them edit
In English, you add "-s" usually at the end of a word to make it plural. In Turkish, we add either a -ler or -lar at the end of a noun to make it plural.
Examples:
gün (day) → günler (days)
akşam (evening) → akşamlar
gece (night) → geceler
televizyon (T.V.) → televizyonlar
-ler or -lar? edit
Since there are two ways to make things plural, we have to decide which one to chose for any given word. We do this by choosing the one that rhymes best with the last vowel in the word.
-ler works best with i, e, ö, and ü -lar works best with ı, a, o, and u