Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

‘an Opel car’
Adjectival constructions, determiners and numerals 173
15.3.2 LOCATIVE-MARKED NOUN PHRASE
This type of adjectival phrase expresses qualities such as age, size, shape, colour, or style.
The noun phrase to which locative case marking is attached is either a -(s)I compound or
has the form Adjective+Noun. Where used attributively, this type of adjectival occurs
only in indefinite noun phrases (22.2):
(14) dört yaş-ın-da bir çocuk
four age-NC-LOC
‘a four-year-old child’
(15) geniş çapta bir arama
‘a wide-ranging search’
15.3.3 ABLATIVE-MARKED NOUN PHRASE
Adjectivals on this pattern express the material from which something is made:
(16) som altından bir taht
‘a throne of solid gold’
(17) gazete kağıdından torbalar
‘bags made from newspaper’
15.3.4 NOUN PHRASE MARKED WITH -lI
In addition to its function of forming derived adjectives from nouns, -lI is highly
productive in forming adjectivals from noun phrases. This suffix means ‘possessing’,
‘characterized by’, or ‘provided with’ whatever is expressed by the stem (see 7.2.2.2).
(18) sarı saç-lı kız
yellow hair-ADJ
‘blonde-haired girl’
(19) uzun boy-lu adamlar
long stature-ADJ
‘tall men’
If the head of the noun phrase to which -lI is suffixed is a -(s)I compound, the compound
marker has to be deleted. Thus from yatak oda-sı ‘bedroom’ adjectival phrases such as
beş yatak oda-lı ‘five-bedroomed’ are derived.
15.3.5 NOUN PHRASE MARKED WITH -lI
Adjectivals of this type are formed from quantitative expressions of the form
numeral+noun, and according to the meaning of this noun can express weight, length,
capacity, duration, price, etc.: