About Turkish ?

Question

does a noun change in Turkish ? like the word book is kitap but if it's pural it will be kitaplar. Is there any other changes ?

Answer 1

Nouns or words in general change extensively in Turkish. Because Turkish is an agglutinative language meaning we add suffixes to words when we want to mark them with number, tense, aspect, case, etc.

As I said, there are many changes in words. The single word kitap can be seen in many other different forms such as;

kitabı (the book - accusative case)
kitaba (to the book - dative)
kitabın (the book's - genitive)
kitapta (in the book - locative)
kitaptan (from the book - ablative)

kitapları (the books - acc)
kitaplara (to the books - dative)
kitaplarda (in the books - locative)
kitaplardan (fromt he books - ablative)
kitapların (the books' - genitive)

etc.

Answer 2

That's not that true.That's just a suffix like ''s'' in English. However,there are too many words as you mentioned in Turkish.For example,kitap means book but kitabım means my book.As you can see,p changes into b.
Last letters of lots of words change according to suffixes.
However,there is an exception which is ''ben''.Ben means me.
Bana means ''to me/for me''.As you can see,the second letter changes.
Here is a few:
p + a e ı i o ö u ü = b + a e ı i o ö u ü
However,if a word ending with p is a single syllable,then p does not change : sap + ı = sapı
k + a e ı i o ö u ü = ğ + a e ı i o ö u ü
The same rule about single syllables is valid for that one too.
On the other hand,while you write a proper noun,it is not written as changed forms.But pronouns as it is.

Answer 3

In Turkish,you form words by using suffixes.-lar and -ler are the sufixes that make nouns plural.Kitap(book) becomes plural when you add -lar to it.
The plural form of the word 'ev'(house) is 'evler',that is to say,you use -lar and -ler due to 'vowel harmony' which is peculiar to all the Altaic languages.
Verbs can take sufixes,too,but it is very complicated.Look at this.
Git(mek) means to go.
Now look at this.
'Gitmiyorum' means 'I am not going'.
As you see,in Turkish,one word with sufixes of tense,person,negation will do,whereas you should make a sentence in English.

Answer 4

Turkish is a language where words are formed by adding suffixes, For example;
Çiçek means flower --> Çiçek = Flower
Çiçek+çi=person who sells flowers
Çiçek+lik=part of garden where there are flowers
Çiçek+ler=flowers

Answer 5

Yes, there are many suffixes that are added to words that can make them mean many different things. "Kitapin" means "your book", kitaplar means "the books", "kitapim" my book, etc. Turkish can be complex, but is beautiful if you learn it. I don't know what the other answerer was saying..

Answer 6

Earthling can be considered an expert here. She gave a very good and concise answer to your question.

Answer 7

no other changes are necessary.