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Ablative and Locative Cases

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Chapter 2d:

Ablative and Locative

These cases, in addition to dative, are for location, mainly. Ablative indicating "from", Locative indicating "at" or "in", and Dative indicating "to"

Ablative Case

Vowel: a/ı/o/u e/i/ö/ü
Typical -dan -den
Consonant Assimilated -tan -ten

Appending these endings to nouns will give them traits which indicate that they are the origin of something, for example:

Türkiyeden

From Turkey.

Evden bir köpek var

There is a dog from the house

There are no pronouns specific to the Ablative case.

Locative Case

Vowel: a/ı/o/u e/i/ö/ü
Typical -da -de
Consonant Assimilated -ta -te

Appending these endings to nouns will give them traits which indicate that they are located somewhere specific:

İngilterede

In England.

Okulda öğretmen yok.

There are no teachers at school

There are no pronouns specific to the Locative case.

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