Marketten kahvaltılık peynir ve zeytin aldım.

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Breakdown of Marketten kahvaltılık peynir ve zeytin aldım.

• market: the market
• almak: to buy
• -ten: from

Questions & Answers about Marketten kahvaltılık peynir ve zeytin aldım.

Why is marketten used here, and what does the -ten ending mean?

-ten is the ablative case ending, which often means from.

So:

• market = market / grocery store
• marketten = from the market

In this sentence, Marketten tells you where the speaker got the items from.

Because of consonant doubling in spelling/pronunciation, market + ten becomes marketten.

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Why is it -ten and not -den?

This is because of consonant harmony in Turkish.

The ablative ending has different forms:

• -dan
• -den
• -tan
• -ten

Which one you use depends on:

1. the last vowel of the word
2. whether the last consonant is voiced or voiceless

In market, the last consonant is t, which is voiceless, so the ending uses t rather than d.

Also, the last vowel that matters is e, so the vowel in the ending is e.

That gives -ten:

• market → marketten

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