Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

(20) beş metrelik bir kablo
‘a five-metre cable’
(21) iki litrelik bir kova
‘a two-litre bucket’
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When the noun to which -lIk is attached is kişi ‘person’, the adjectival usually has the
meaning ‘sufficient/suitable for…people’:
(22) Otobüste sadece iki kişilik yer kalmış.
‘It seems there are only two seats left on the bus.’ (lit. ‘space for two people’)
Where -lIk is attached directly to a numerical expression, it denotes value or price (in
Turkish lira, if not otherwise specified):
(23) Demet beş yüz milyonluk bir fotoğraf makinesi almış.
‘Apparently Demet has bought a five-hundred-million (-lira) camera.’
15.3.6 LOCATIVE-MARKED NOUN PHRASE+-ki
This is an extremely productive construction (see 8.1.4), creating an attributive adjectival
phrase from a locational expression (which without -ki could function only adverbially or
predicatively). Adjectival phrases formed on this pattern are used predominantly in noun
phrases that have definite status (22.1), sometimes also in those that are indefinite but
specific (22.2.1):
(24) {Bahçe-de-ki (bazı) ağaç-lar} yapraklarını dökmeye başladı.
garden-LOC-ADJ (some) tree-PL
‘{The/Some trees in the garden} have begun to shed their leaves.’
This construction occurs also with possessive-marked postpositions (17.3) that include
the locative case marker:
(25) Arka-mız-da-ki (bir) araba bizi geçmek istiyor.
back-1PL.POSS-LOC-ADJ (a) car
‘The/A car behind us wants to overtake us.’
(26) Benim hakkımdaki fikriniz yanlış.
‘Your opinion of me is wrong.’
15.3.7 TEMPORAL ADVERBIAL+-ki
Any adverbial expressing location (as opposed to duration) in time (16.4.1.1) can
similarly be converted into a defining adjectival phrase by the addition of -ki (8.1.4):
(27) Bu sabahki gazetede okudum.
‘I read (it) in this morning’s paper.’
(28) Mehmet’in o günkü halini çok iyi hatırlıyorum.
‘I well remember the state Mehmet was in that day.’