çekmece: drawer and vowel-final endings

The idea

The noun çekmece means drawer and ends in a vowel. The definite object takes buffer y before accusative -i: çekmeceyi. My drawer is çekmecem, with -m directly after the final vowel. In the drawer is çekmecede, with locative -de. The plural is çekmeceler.

Examples

• Çekmeceyi yavaşça açtım.I opened the drawer slowly.
• Bu çekmecede kalem var.There is a pen in this drawer.
• Çekmecem şimdi çok düzenli.My drawer is very tidy now.
• İki çekmece boş.Two drawers are empty.
• Anahtarlar çekmecenin içinde.The keys are inside the drawer.
• Onun çekmecesi küçük.His or her drawer is small.

Watch out

Do not insert y before every ending: the definite object is çekmeceyi, but in the drawer is çekmecede, not çekmeceyde. The locative ending already starts with a consonant.

Try it yourself

1. Bu ___ açtım. (çekmece)

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   çekmeceyi

   çekmeceyi: the demonstrative marks the definite object; buffer y joins the vowel-final stem and accusative -i.

2. Benim ___ temiz. (çekmece)

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   çekmecem

   çekmecem: possessive -m follows the stem's final vowel directly to express my.

3. Kalemler bu ___ duruyor. (çekmece)

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   çekmecede

   çekmecede: locative -de attaches directly and marks where the pens are.

Use it today

Describe your drawer, write what is in it and say when you open it.