Questions & Answers about Limon taze.
Turkish has no articles. A bare noun can be indefinite, definite or generic depending on context.
- Limon taze can mean A lemon is fresh or Lemon is fresh in a general sense.
- To say this lemon is fresh, you add a demonstrative: Bu limon taze.
- To say the lemons are fresh, you make it plural: Limonlar taze.
You insert the negative copula değil after the adjective:
Limon taze değil
This literally reads “Lemon fresh not,” which means “The lemon is not fresh.”
Add the question particle mi (with vowel harmony):
Limon taze mi?
This means “Is the lemon fresh?” The particle mi follows the word it refers to and stays separate.
Make the subject plural by adding -lar or -ler to limon, depending on vowel harmony:
Limonlar taze
This means “Lemons are fresh.”
Yes. You can use the suffix -dir on the adjective for a formal or emphatic tone:
Limon tazedir
In everyday speech this suffix is usually dropped, but it appears in textbooks, signs or formal writing.
• taze limon is attributive: it means fresh lemon (describing the type of lemon).
• Limon taze is predicative: it means The lemon is fresh (stating a property of the lemon).