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There is | There is NOT |I have | I don’t have

Ok todays lesson is a little different than the other grammar stuff. This one is easy but hard to understand for some people at first.

-VAR (There is | have)

-YOK (There is not | have not)

Lets try to say i have a car .

Car: araba

araba(m) var -I have a car :[You use the possesion suffix to tell that it is your car.] {Benim arabam var.}

araba(m) yok- I don’t have a car

araba(n) yok - You don’t have a car.

araba yok - There is no car.

araba(sı) yok - He/she doesnt have a car.

you can form lots of sentences like this.

Challange:

try to say : i have 2 apples in my pocket

Comments 10

  1. Stefan wrote:

    Is it: “Incine cepim iki elmalerim var.” ?

    Posted 20 Apr 2008 at 12:17 am
  2. frozsgy wrote:

    @stefan: you should say: “cebimde iki elmam var” <—- thats correct as well apple has possessions.
    in Turkish, we user plural forms of words rarely for things don’t alive. <—- never heard of this one myself.

    Posted 20 Apr 2008 at 5:46 pm
  3. admin wrote:

    “Cebimde iki elma var.” is the correct form. when you say the quantitiy of the apples you must not plural it like “elmalar”

    Posted 21 Apr 2008 at 6:52 am
  4. Stefan wrote:

    @frosgy: aint apples considered alive in turkey?

    Posted 22 Apr 2008 at 4:44 pm
  5. Louise wrote:

    Didnt know that you dont make objects plural.

    Posted 26 Apr 2008 at 10:44 pm
  6. Louise wrote:

    Cebimde iki tane elma var. <—- Nicely Done!!!

    Posted 26 Apr 2008 at 10:45 pm
  7. Nahaj wrote:

    Are you Hungarian? This is a sentence similar to that used to prove that Hungarian and Turkish are related languages.
    Cebimde cok elma var.
    In Hungarian:
    Zsebemben sok alma van.
    Zs=j, s=sh, the others like in Turkish.

    Posted 29 May 2008 at 6:54 am
  8. admin wrote:

    Turkish and Hungarian are from the same origin. Ugric-Altaic Language and yes i heard about that sentence hungarian people understands it very well as well.

    Posted 29 May 2008 at 7:16 am
  9. Laura wrote:

    param yok
    paran yok
    para yok —> there is no money
    parası yok

    param var
    paran var
    para var —-> there is money
    parası var

    <– Hey people Please check the correct usage of Possesive pronouns It is beyond perfect…..

    Posted 15 Jun 2008 at 4:43 pm
  10. tarkan wrote:

    well done!!

    Posted 03 Jul 2008 (4 weeks ago) at 10:36 pm

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