The Ultimate Guide to Turkish Pronouns

Learn Turkish pronouns

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Herkese merhaba, ben Seda!

Hi everybody, my name is Seda.

Welcome to TurkishClass101.com!

Hepiniz hoşgeldiniz!

Nasılsınız?

In this video I will be talking briefly about personal pronouns…

Şahıs zamirleri…

This is a relatively easy subject. You just need to memorize the words. Their usage is very similar to English and other languages.

Let’s start with the pronouns and then I will give you different versions of them.

Ben

Sen

You

Sen

He/She/IT

Biz

Siz

You

Siz

Onlar

They

Onlar

I have some notes about these pronouns.

The first one is

As you may notice, we do not have any gender in the pronouns. We do not have a gender in Turkish language. Everything is neutral so this applies to pronouns as well.

Another important note in pronouns, “siz” This is normally a plural you.

I've talked about this in another video, but I will repeat it again.

This is normally a plural you.

Siz.

However, if you want to be polite to someone,

you would use this plural you form as a singular one.

For example,

Su ister misiniz?

Would you like some water?

This can be directed to multiple people, two, three, four, five people,

so it's up to you guys, would you like water?

Or just one person, you are being polite to.

So, keep that in mind.

The last note about pronouns!

In Turkish, in Turkish grammar, you do not have to use these pronouns in a sentence openly.

What I mean.

The verb is already conjugated with the personal pronoun suffix,

and one can understand the pronoun without mentioning it,

like ben, sen, o,biz, siz, onlar version.

Let me give you an example so you understand better.

Ben seni seviyorum.

I love you.

Ben seni seviyorum.

Here we used the pronoun “ben”; however, you don’t have to.

If you say

Seni seviyorum.

It already means “I love you.”

Because the M at the end of seviyorum shows it is I who love you.

So when or why do you use these?

If it's not necessary.

Let me put it this way.

If you want to emphasize it is I or it is someone to do something,

you would use them.

It's mostly for emphasis.

Anyway, let's continue.

In one of the previous videos, I talked about noun states.

İsmin halleri.

Okay, we have five, five noun states.

The first one is nominative or absolute,

Yalın Hali

This one is without a suffix, plain one.

For example:

House

So we have the second version of a noun with the locative case.

Bulunma hali

This one is either at, on or in, something like in in English.

As a Turkish suffix, it's de, da, te, ta.

For example, evde in the house.

The third one is the dative,

yönelme hali, dative case.

This one is either to or towards in English.

As a suffix in Turkish, it's e-a or ye-ya.

So it is eve, to the house.

The fourth one is the accusative or you can say definite.

Belitme hali.

The verb should be, to be able to use this,

the verb should be a transitive verb.

This accusative form is used when the object of the sentence is definite or specific.

It is similar to the in English.

As a Turkish suffix, it is either i-ı, u-ü, yı-yi, yu-yu,

according to vowel harmony rules, sorry.

If I give an example, evi, the house.

And the last one is ablative case.

It is ayrılma hali in Turkish.

This one is either from, out of, through, of in English.

And in Turkish, the suffixes are den, dan, ten, tan.

Okay, so why did I mention these?

Because all these noun state suffixes can be used with the personal pronouns in Turkish.

Let's see how.

I will probably, it's going to be a little confusing.

Me just saying it, so I will put up some table,

something like a table here, here, I don't know, somewhere.

Okay, I will just say them and you can read them here.

So I will start with ben, I, bende, bana, beni, benden.

Okay, so the next one is sen, you,

sende, sana, seni, senden.

The third one is o, he, she, it.

ona, onu, ondan

biz, we, bizde, bize, bizi, bizden

siz, you, plural or formal singular

sizde, size, sizi, sizden

onlar, onlarda, onlara, onları, onlardan

So this is it. LEt me give some examples before I go so you see them in action not just separately by themselves.

Sen beni aradın mı?

Did you call me?

Here beni is a definite object. That’s why we take -i.

Kalemin bende

Your pencil is at me. Not a correct translation but a meaning is like in my bag, at my house. Something like that. But we use it like this in Turkish.

Kalemin bende.

Senden duydum,

I heard it from you

onlar bizi görmediler

They didn't see us

onlar bizi görmediler

Here again, bizi is a definite object of the sentence

siz gelin, you come

Biz üzgünüz

We are sorry

Biz üzgünüz

Bizi izliyorlar

They are watching us

Bizi izliyorlar

I didn’t say

Onlar bizi izliyorlar

Ben onlardan korkuyorum

Or just

Onlardan korkuyorum

Same.

Ok, that’s it. We are done guys. You can multiply the examples. I hope these examples are enough.

You need to play with the words to be able to memorize them easily. Otherwise all of them at once. I hope you enjoyed watching this video

and if you have any questions please leave them below!

And use the comment section to practice together!

Don’t hesitate to help each other

Not everybody remembers what the terms are

For example, what is a pronoun, what is a definite object

But these terms make sense when I explain things

So if you can't remember what those are, please take note of the terms and search about them

Because when you know the terms, you understand how these structures are used in a sentence

So it will help you to learn easier

So take note and just google it, probably you'll see in Wikipedia or something like that

Okay, that's it guys, I will see you next time

Görüşürüz, kendinize iyi bakın

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