Turkish

<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:
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<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

Word	Şurası gölge, oraya gidelim.
Meaning	[Lit.]There is shadow, let's go over there.
Part of speech	sentence
Pronunciation
Course	Turkish
Lesson	Location Pronouns: Nominative and Accusative

to go	gitmek
(to) there^O	oraya
there^NOMINATIVE	şurası
shadow, shade	gölge

Turkish - Şurası gölge, oraya gidelim.

Breakdown of Şurası gölge, oraya gidelim.

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