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<p>
	Up until now, you've seen the location pronouns in the following forms: 
	locative (e.g burada), ablative (e.g buradan), dative (e.g buraya).
	In this lesson you will learn the remaining forms: the nominative and the accusative.
</p>

<p>
	In Turkish, the root forms of these pronouns are <strong>bura</strong> (here), <strong>şura</strong> (there, close-by), and <strong>ora</strong> ((over) there).
	Some people consider these bare forms grammatical, that is to say, they can stand on their own and mean something.
	According to most, a suffix needs to be attached in order to be grammatical.
	These root forms can get any of the case suffixes, possessive suffixes, or the plural suffix, or they can combine suffixes.
	But first, let's complete the case set:
</p>

<table class="ui fixed celled table">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Nominative</th>
            <th>Accusative</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
			<td>burası</td>
            <td>burayı</td>
        </tr>
		<tr>
			<td>şurası</td>
            <td>şurayı</td>
        </tr>
		<tr>
			<td>orası</td>
            <td>orayı</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	As you can see, the nominative form gets a third person possessive suffix (for absolutely no reason).
	Now let's put them in sentences:
</p>

<table class="ui fixed celled table">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
			<td><strong>Burası</strong> güzel.</td>
            <td>Here is nice.</td>
			<td><strong>Burayı</strong> hatırlıyor.</td>
            <td>S/he remembers this place. [Lit. She remembers here.]</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
			<td><strong>Orası</strong> nasıl?</td>
            <td>How is (it) there?</td>
			<td><strong>Orayı</strong> sevdin mi?</td>
            <td>Did you like (it) there?</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	There's a little oddity in Turkish about these pronouns. You can combine the nominative and accusative form and get the same meaning as simply the accusative form. Such as:
</p>

<table class="ui fixed celled table">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
			<td>Bura<strong>sını</strong> hatırlıyor.</td>
            <td>S/he remembers this place. [Lit. She remembers here.]</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
			<td>Ora<strong>sını</strong> beğendiniz mi?</td>
            <td>Did you like (it) there?</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	These sentences have identical meaning with the sentences that only used an accusative suffix, even though these contain an additional suffix.
	I advise you to use nominative-only and accusative-only forms instead of the combined forms, just to be safe.
	However, be ready to see forms like <strong>burasını, şurasını, orasını</strong> used by natives. 
</p>

Location Pronouns: Nominative and Accusative

noun

adjective

determiner

verb

adverb

postposition

interjection

conjunction

pronoun

sentence

phrase

Unknown

NOUN - vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

VERB - intransitive, passive

VERB - intransitive, non-passive

VERB - transitive, non-causative

VERB - transitive, causative

VERB - ablative

VERB - dative

VERB - locative

VERB - accusative

VERB - intransitive, reciprocal

VERB - intransitive, reflexive

VERB - auxiliary

Counting to 10

Fruits

The days of the week

The months of the year

Demonstratives

Adjectives

Vegetables

Animals extended

Hello and goodbye

Colors

First degree family

Nouns and articles

Plural nouns and minor vowel harmony

Personal pronouns

The verb "to be"

There is and there are

The infinitive and the stem

The imperative and major vowel harmony

The present continuous

The locative case suffix

The accusative case suffix

The dative case suffix

Final consonant harmony

Negative verbs

Questions in the present continuous

Questions with the verb "to be"

The imperative

The imperative forms of yemek and demek

Different uses of the present continuous

Irregular verbs

The Turkish alphabet

The indefinite article and the number one

The negative form of "to be"

Question words

Meeting people

Conjunctions

Stress inside questions

Locative location pronouns

Dative and ablative location pronouns

Accusative and locative personal pronouns

The genitive case suffix

Genitive personal pronouns

Extended family

The possession suffix

Dative and ablative personal pronouns

Expressing possession with var and yok

Clothing

The head and related parts

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Body parts

Combining suffixes

Water and the possession suffix

Vowel elimination on suffixation

Location postpositions

Location postpositions 2

Extra vocabulary and expressions

The ablative case suffix

Wearing things

Demonstratives with case suffixes

Counting larger numbers

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A bit much and more and less

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The instrumentative

The definite simple past

Food

Nuts

Countries

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With and without

Nationalities

Question	Answer
here^ACCUSATIVE	burayı
here^NOMINATIVE	burası
there^ACCUSATIVE	şurayı
there^NOMINATIVE	şurası
(over) there^ACCUSATIVE	orayı
(over) there^NOMINATIVE	orası
Here is nice.	Burası güzel.
Did you like (it) there?	Orayı sevdin mi?
to recall, to remember	hatırlamak
She remembers this place. [Lit. She remembers here.]	Burayı hatırlıyor.
How is (it) there?	Orası nasıl?
to visit (someplace, someone)	ziyaret etmek
Tourists often visit here.	Turistler burayı sık sık ziyaret ederler.
shadow, shade	gölge
[Lit.]There is shadow, let's go over there.	Şurası gölge, oraya gidelim.
Nazi	Nazi
camp	kamp
In the past, here was a Nazi camp.	Burası eskiden Nazi kampıydı.

Turkish 164 - Location Pronouns: Nominative and Accusative

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