Learn Turkish: Dokuz ağaç kısa, on ağaç uzun. - Nine trees are short, ten trees are tall.

Dokuz ağaç kısa, on ağaç uzun.

Nine trees are short, ten trees are tall.

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Questions & Answers about Dokuz ağaç kısa, on ağaç uzun.

Why is it ağaç and not ağaçlar when there are nine or ten of them?

In Turkish, when you use a number before a noun to say how many there are, the noun must always stay in the singular form. You say dokuz ağaç (nine tree), never dokuz ağaçlar.

Where is the word for "are" in this sentence?

Turkish doesn't use a separate word for "is" or "are". Instead, you just place the subject (dokuz ağaç) and the adjective describing it (kısa) side by side. For "it" or "they" (third person), no extra suffixes are needed, so the sentence naturally means "Nine trees are short".

I learned uzun means "long". Can it also mean "tall"?

Yes! In Turkish, uzun is used for both length ("long") and height ("tall"). You use it for the height of trees, buildings, and people, as well as the length of roads or movies.