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In this lesson you will learn about the suffix -lİk, which creates nouns and adjectives out of other words.
	The suffix -lİk has many functions, of which you can see an overview below.
	Of course, you don't need to learn all these functions, since you will learn all words that end in -lİk individually.



	In the table below, X refers to the part of the word before the suffix -lİk.


<table class="ui fixed celled definition table">
 <thead>
 <tr>
 <th>Creating nouns with -lİk</th>
 <th>Turkish example</th>
 <th>English translation</th>
 </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <td>The concept of being X</td>
			<td>büyüklük iyilik</td>
 <td>size, magnitude goodness, kindness</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>An object that goes together with body part X</td>
			<td>kulaklık bileklik</td>
			<td>headphones wristband</td>
 </tr>
		 <tr>
 <td>A container for X</td>
			 <td>kitaplık kömürlük</td>
			<td>bookcase coal cellar</td>
 </tr>
		<tr>
 <td>A location where X is abundantly present</td>
			<td>kumluk dutluk</td>
			<td>sandy place, sandbox mulberry grove, mulberry garden</td>
 </tr>
		<tr>
 <td>A person whose role is parallel to the blood relationship indicated by X</td>
			<td>analık evlatlık</td>
			<td>step-mother adopted child</td>
 </tr>
		<tr>
 <td>Quantity measure</td>
			<td>ellilik onluk</td>
			<td>fifty (TLs, dollars, Euros) tenner</td>
 </tr>
		<tr>
 <td>Application, embodiment or institutionalization of X</td>
			<td>iyilik krallık</td>
 <td>good deed, a favour kingdom</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

Now let's see the adjectives created by -lİk:

<table class="ui fixed celled definition table">
 <thead>
 <tr>
 <th>Creating adjectives with -lİk</th>
 <th>Turkish example</th>
 <th>English translation</th>
 </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <td>Object suitable for X</td>
			<td>sıkmalık (limon) örmelik (kumaş)</td>
 <td>(lemon) for squeezing, (fabric) for knitting</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Designate recurrence</td>
			<td>yıllık haftalık</td>
			<td>annual weekly</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>Approximate age of a person</td>
			<td>ellilik iki haftalık</td>
			<td>(someone in their) fifties two weeks old</td>
 </tr>
		<tr>
 <td>Price or value of something</td>
			<td>bir milyarlık üç binlik</td>
			<td>(worth) a billion (currency). (worth) three thousand (currency)</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

The suffix -lİk

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

Compound nouns

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

Using numbers and quantifiers

A bit much and more and less

Animals

Telling time

The instrumentative

The definite simple past

Food

Nuts

Countries

Traffic and directions

The weather

With and without

Nationalities

Question	Answer
coal	kömür
coal cellar, coal shed	kömürlük
sand	kum
sandbox, sandpit, sandy place	kumluk
mulberry	dut
mulberry grove, mulberry garden	dutluk
mother	ana
stepmother	analık
to squeeze, to tighten, to clench	sıkmak
for squeezing	sıkmalık
to knit, to weave	örmek
for knitting, for weaving	örmelik
file, dossier, folder	dosya
size, magnitude, greatness, grandeur	büyüklük
What's the size of that folder?	Şu dosyanın büyüklüğü ne?
goodness, benevolence, kindness	iyilik
a favour, a benefit	iyilik
Can you do me a favor?	Bana bir iyilik yapabilir misin?
studenthood, studentness	öğrencilik
headphone, earphone	kulaklık
wristband, wristlet	bileklik
bookcase, bookshelf, library	kitaplık
adopted child	evlatlık
annual	yıllık
weekly	haftalık
Do favour, find favour.^{TURKISH PROVERB}	İyilik yap, iyilik bul.
to take off, to remove	çıkarmak
Students, take off your wristbands and your earphones.	Öğrenciler, bilekliklerinizi ve kulaklıklarınızı çıkarın.
wool	yün
For my mother, I bought oranges for squeezing and wool for weaving from the bazaar.	Anneme pazardan sıkmalık portakallar ve örmelik yün aldım.
Don't be such a Kamil. [Lit.] Don't do Kamilness.	Kamillik yapma.

Turkish 128 - The suffix -lİk

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