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This Party is Too Crowded Made with love.
Join us for today's plural party at Turkish Tea Time. We'll be serving rakı,
börek, and a huge party plate of -ler's and -lar's.
Dialog
Dialog Translation
2 | Burcu Hello my dear. The party is crowded. There are a lot of students.
6 | Burcu Yes. There are three French men right here. Hurry - come!
Language Points
Plurals
Plurality is expressed in Turkish with the suffix -ler. This suffix follows e-type vowel harmony so can take one other
form: -lar. To make a word plural, simply add -ler or -lar to the end of the word.
Kediler. (kedi)
Cats
Adamlar. (adam)
Men.
Gözler. (göz)
Eyes
Kızlar. (kız)
Women.
You don't use plurals in Turkish in all the same instances that you do in English. In particular, if a word is ever
preceded by another word that indicates plurality, you don't use -ler. For example, in Turkish, you say üç kedi
(three cat), not üç kediler (three cats). This isn't that strange - we already know that the word kedi is plural from
the number three. The -ler would be redundant. Besides numbers, other commons cases are quantitative
adjecives like çok (a lot), birkaç (a few), and the question word kaç (how many) - don't add -ler when using these
words.
Dört kedi var.
There are four cats.
Nasıl
You probably already recognize nasıl from the word nasılsın (how are you). Nasıl by itself means how and can be
used to ask about things in the same way as in English: how is it going?, how is the food, etc. Simply add nasıl
after whater you want to ask about.
Rakı nasıl?
How do you find the rakı?
Vocabulary
tatlı sweet
kalabalık crowded
galiba presumably
parti party
canım my dear
öğrenci student
yabancı foreigner
Fransız French
Review
a. İki kediler.
b. İki kedilar.
2. Parti nasıl?
b. Parti kalabalık.
c. Saat sekizde.
d. Üç tane yabancı.
3. Which of the following use the plural suffix correctly? (pick all)
a. Üç kediler var.
Answer Key
1. d
2. b
3. b d f
4. Beş köpek var , Beş tane köpek var
5. Köpekler var burada , Burada köpekler var , Köpekler burada var
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