LingoflyNo prepositions — endings instead
English builds in the house, from the house, to the house out of a noun and a little word in front. Turkish glues that little word onto the back, and the noun grows to the right. For example: “İstanbul’da yaşıyorum” — I live in Istanbul. A rule from the Turkish course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
English builds in the house, from the house, to the house out of a noun and a little word in front. Turkish glues that little word onto the back, and the noun grows to the right.
ev is house → evde is in the house → evden is from the house → eve is to the house.
The tails stack in a fixed order: ev-ler-im-de reads house-plural-my-in, in my houses. Read a long word left to right, in chunks, and it stops being frightening.
So where English needs three separate words, Turkish needs one: İstanbul’da yaşıyorum, Istanbul-in I-live.
Table
| in English | in Turkish | how it reads |
|---|---|---|
| in the house | evde | house-in |
| from the house | evden | house-from |
| to the house | eve | house-to |
| in my houses | evlerimde | house-plural-my-in |
By example
- İstanbul’da yaşıyorumI live in Istanbul
- Eve gidiyorumI am going home
- Rusya’dan geldimI came from Russia
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
No prepositions — endings instead: how does it work in Turkish?
English builds in the house, from the house, to the house out of a noun and a little word in front. Turkish glues that little word onto the back, and the noun grows to the right.
What does it look like in a Turkish example sentence?
“İstanbul’da yaşıyorum” — I live in Istanbul. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.