tepe: a hill and the view from it

The idea

Tepe means hill or top. Tepeye marks movement to the hill, tepede a location on it and tepeden a view or movement from it. The dative adds linking y after the final vowel.

Examples

• Tepeye gün doğmadan çıktık.We climbed the hill before sunrise.
• Çocuklar tepede uçurtma uçuruyor.The children are flying kites on the hill.
• Tepeden gölü açıkça gördük.We saw the lake clearly from the hill.
• Bu tepe çok yüksek değil.This hill is not very high.
• Tepenin üstünde eski bir ev var.There is an old house on top of the hill.
• İki tepe köyün arkasında.Two hills are behind the village.

Watch out

Include y in tepeye before -e. The forms tepede and tepeden use different endings for location and starting point.

Try it yourself

1. We climbed the hill before sunrise. (destination) ___ gün doğmadan çıktık.

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   tepeye

   tepeye: linking y precedes dative -e.

2. The children are flying kites on the hill. (location) Çocuklar ___ uçurtma uçuruyor.

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   tepede

   tepede: locative -de marks the location.

3. We saw the lake clearly from the hill. (viewpoint) ___ gölü açıkça gördük.

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   tepeden

   tepeden: ablative -den marks the viewpoint.

Use it today

Describe a hill and what you can see from it.