Cases Cases are familiar to some languages such as Latin, German, Polish or Finnish.

However, if your native language is English, it may be difficult to learn cases immediately. But, if you use and/or study Turkish, you will understand the importance of case. In Turkish, prepositions like "to", "from", "at","in" etc. do not exist. Instead, case suffixes are employed. e, i , a, o, u ev "house" Yaln Hal bahe "garden" "Nominative" lgi Hali "Genitive" -(n)in -(n)n -(n)n -(n)un bahe "garden's" Belirtme Hali baheyi "(the) garden (as -(y)i -(y) -(y) -(y)u "Accusative" an object)" Ynelme Hali -(y)e -(y)e -(y)a -(y)a baheye "to garden" "Dative" Bulunma Hali -de -de -da -da bahede "in garden" "Locative" Ayrlma Hali -den -den -dan -dan baheden "from garden" "Ablative" Eitlik Hali "Essesive" -ce -ce -ca -ca bahece "as a garden" lgi Hali "Instructive" -(y)le -(y)le -(y)la -(y)la baheyle "with garden" lgisizlik Hali -siz -sz -sz -suz bahesiz "without garden" "Abbesive" araba "car" araba "(a) car" arabann "car's" araba y "(the) car (as an object)" arabaya "to car" arabada "on car" arabadan "from car" arabaca "as a car" arabayla "with car" arabasz "without car"

Example
Kitap okuyorum. "I'm reading a book." Nominative Kitab okuyorum. "I'm reading the book." Accusative Evin kaps. "House's door." Genitive Eve gidiyorum. "I'm going to house." Dative Evde bekliyorum."I'm waiting in house" Locative Evden geldim. "I came from house." Ablative Arabayla gidiceiz. "We will go with car." Instructive Arabasz gidemeyiz. "We can't go without car." Abbesive Suffixes attached to the names (people, cities, countries) are preceded by an ' . Ali => Ali'ye (to Ali, male name) Tarkan => Tarkan'a (to Tarkan, male name)

Aye => Aye'ye (to Aye, girl name) Sibel => Sibel'e (to Sibel, girl name) The dative (-a, -e) and accusative (, i, u, ) case suffixes require a buffer consonant y in words ending with a vowel and become (-ya, -ye) and (y, yi, yu, y) respectively as in: Ankara'ya (to Ankara); I am going to Ankara => Ankara'ya gidiyorum. Trkiye'ye (to Turkey); I am going to Turkey => Trkiye'ye gidiyorum. haly (the carpet); I am buying the carpet. => Haly alyorum. The genitive case requires an additional n in words ending with a vowel as in: Aye'nin (Aye's) => Aye'nin babas (Aye's father) Ali'nin (Ali's) => Ali'nin annesi (Ali's mother) Atilla'nn (Atilla's) => Atilla'nn abisi (Atilla's [elder] brother) Arto'nun (Arto's) => Arto'nun ninesi (Arto's grandmother) Hsn'nn (Hsn's) => Hsn'nn evi (Hsn's house)