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Adjectives & Adverbs
Adjective placement, comparison, adverb formation, degree words
güzel
beautiful / nice
gew-zel
Adjectives precede nouns; güzel ev = beautiful house
iyi / kötü
good / bad
ee-yee / kur-tew
Common opposite pair; iyi also means well/fine
büyük / küçük
big / small
bew-yewk / kew-chewk
Size adjectives; no agreement with noun gender (none exists)
Daha + adjective
more + adjective (comparative)
dah-hah
Daha güzel = more beautiful; no suffix needed
En + adjective
most + adjective (superlative)
ehn
En güzel = the most beautiful; en precedes adjective
Çok / az
very/much / little/few
chok / ahz
Çok used as intensifier: çok güzel = very beautiful
Hızlı / yavaş
fast / slow
huhz-luh / yah-vahsh
Adverbs same form as adjectives in Turkish: hızlı koşmak = to run fast
İyi bir öğrenci
a good student
ee-yee beer ur-ren-jee
Bir (one/a) = indefinite article; adjective precedes bir precedes noun
Çok soğuk.
Very cold.
chok soh-ook
Weather expressions use adjective as predicate directly
Nasıl?
How? / How is it?
nah-suhl
Nasıl also means how are you in Nasılsınız?