ADJECTIVES-SIFATLAR

In Turkish, as in English, adjectives go before nouns, describing their size, shape- colour, etc. (eg big -büyük, long-uzun)

 Büyük                                    big

masa                                      table

büyük bir masa                    a big table

güzel                                    beautiful

kız                                          girl

güzel kız                               the beautiful girl

güzel bir kız                          a beautiful girl

Look carefully at these two sentences

bu eski bir hastanedir this is an old hospital

Bu hastane eskidir this hospital is old

*As in English, in Turkish sentences it is possible for adjectives to come at the end.In the first sentence, bu is used as a demonstrative (as the subject of the sentence), and precedes the adjective

*(eski) in the second sentence, bu is used as a determiner (answering the question, ''which?''-''which hospital?'' this hospital ), in which case it precedes the noun (hastane), and the adjective (eski) is placed atthe end of the sentance (with the be-sufix)

As you can see above examples, “bir” comes between the adjective and noun (unlike English) 

look carefully at these sentances

şu büyük bir parktır                         şu park büyüktür

that is a big park                              that park is big

bunlar yeni defterdir                       bu defterler yenidir

these are new note-books             these note-books are new

*In turkish, when the demonstrative remains in thesingular (bu/şu/o) and itis the noun which takes Bunlar yeni defterdir, defter can be used without the plural suffix-ler.In english this is not so(notebooks with the plural s must be used)

 *Used adjectively, thne demonstrative remains in the singular (bu/şu/o) and it is the noun which takes the plural suffix.The demonstrative pronoun bu in the second sentence, with the noun defter used in the plural (defterler)

 bunlar ucuz televizyon mudur? are these cheap televisions?

bunlar ucuz televizyon değildir these arent cheap televisions

bu televizyonlar ucuzdur these televisions are cheap

bu televizyonlar ucuz mudur? are these televisions cheap?

bu televizyonlar ucuz değildir these televisions arent cheap

1.  Bu ucuz bir sözlüktür     This is a cheap dictionary

     Bu ucuz bir sözlük müdür? Evet, ucuzdur./hayır, değildir.

     Is this a cheap dictionary? Yes, it is/no, it isn't

2. Bu sözlük ucuzdur. This dictionary is cheap

    Bu sözlük ucuz mudur? Evet, ucuzdur./hayır, değildir

    Is this dictionary cheap? Yes, it is/no, it isnt