What are common mistakes with İsim halleri: Ayrılma hali?

The 4-way ablative form (-dan/-den/-tan/-ten) requires checking both vowel harmony AND consonant type. 🇬🇧 English speakers: English uses 'from' for all contexts. Learners forget to check both harmony and hardness. 🇷🇺 Russian speakers: Russian uses genitive + 'из/от/с' prepositions for source — different mechanism but similar concept. 🇨🇿 Czech speakers: Czech uses genitive + 'z/od' — familiar concept, unfamiliar suffix mechanism. 🇩🇪 German speakers: German uses 'von/aus' prepositions — no case suffix for 'from'.

İsim halleri: Ayrılma hali

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Ablative case (-dan/-den/-tan/-ten) for origin, source, and 'from'

Can express origin, source, and comparisons using the ablative case

Ablative case (-dan/-den/-tan/-ten) for origin, source, and 'from'

Examples

İstanbul'dan geliyorum. — I'm coming from Istanbul.
Saat beşten sonra geleceğim. — I will come after five o'clock.
Bu şehir Ankara'dan büyük. — This city is bigger than Ankara.

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İsim halleri: Ayrılma hali

Ablative case (-dan/-den/-tan/-ten) for origin, source, and 'from'

Learning Goal

Can express origin, source, and comparisons using the ablative case

Exam Skills:KonuşmaYazma

Look at these examples. Can you spot the grammar pattern?

İstanbul'dan geliyorum.

I'm coming from Istanbul.

Saat beşten sonra geleceğim.

I will come after five o'clock.

Bu şehir Ankara'dan büyük.

This city is bigger than Ankara.

Pay attention to the highlighted parts. What do they have in common?

Ayrılma hali (ablative) bir yerden ayrılmayı, kaynağı veya sebebi gösterir. Eki: -dan / -den / -tan / -ten.

Son ünlü	Son ünsüz	Ek	Örnek
kalın	yumuşak	-dan	okul → okuldan
kalın	sert (p,ç,t,k,f,h,s,ş)	-tan	park → parktan
ince	yumuşak	-den	ev → evden
ince	sert	-ten	Türkiye'den ama işten

Kullanımlar:

Nereden? (kaynak): İstanbul'dan geliyorum
Karşılaştırma: Ankara'dan büyük
Sebep: Soğuktan üşüdüm

The 4-way ablative form (-dan/-den/-tan/-ten) requires checking both vowel harmony AND consonant type. 🇬🇧 English speakers: English uses 'from' for all contexts. Learners forget to check both harmony and hardness.

Common Error Patterns

Used -dan/-den after hard consonant instead of -tan/-ten

After p,ç,t,k,f,h,s,ş → use -tan/-ten

İstanbul'dan geliyorum.

I'm coming from Istanbul.

İstanbul → İstanbul'dan: back vowel + soft consonant → -dan.

Saat beşten sonra geleceğim.

I will come after five o'clock.

beş → beş-ten: front + hard → -ten. With sonra (after) for time.

Bu şehir Ankara'dan büyük.

This city is bigger than Ankara.

Ablative for comparisons: X Y-dan büyük = X is bigger than Y.

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When is İsim halleri: Ayrılma hali used?: Ayrılma hali (ablative) bir yerden ayrılmayı, kaynağı veya sebebi gösterir. Eki: -dan / -den / -tan / -ten .
What are common mistakes with İsim halleri: Ayrılma hali?: The 4-way ablative form (-dan/-den/-tan/-ten) requires checking both vowel harmony AND consonant type. 🇬🇧 English speakers: English uses 'from' for all contexts. Learners forget to check both harmony and hardness. 🇷🇺 Russian speakers: Russian uses genitive + 'из/от/с' prepositions for source — different mechanism but similar concept. 🇨🇿 Czech speakers: Czech uses genitive + 'z/od' — familiar concept, unfamiliar suffix mechanism. 🇩🇪 German speakers: German uses 'von/aus' prepositions — no case suffix for 'from'.