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(73) sekiz bardak su
‘eight glasses [of] water’
Tane and measure terms can also be used with distributive numerals:
(74) ikişer tane araba
‘two cars each’
Most of these terms can combine with the 3rd person singular possessive marker -(s)I
(8.1.2) and function as heads of genitive-possessive constructions (14.4):
(75) Limon-un tane-si 20 peni.
lemon-GEN ENUM-3SG.POSS
‘The lemons are 20p each.’
(76) İpeğin metresi ne kadar?
‘How much is the silk per metre?’
The possessive-suffixed forms also occur as pronominals (18.4 (iii)):
(77) Çok pahalı bir ilaç. Şişesi 100 sterlin.
‘It’s a very expensive medicine. [It’s] £100 per bottle.’
Dolusu ‘…ful’ can also be used as a measure term when compounded with a preceding
noun:
(78) iki oda dolusu eski gazete
‘two roomfuls of old newspapers’
The adverbials yaklaşık olarak, aşağı yukarı ‘approximately’, hemen hemen ‘almost’ can
occur before any numerical expression:
(79) Aşağı yukarı 100 sayfa okudum.
‘I’ve read about 100 pages.’
15.9 THE POSITION OF DETERMINERS AND NUMERALS WITHIN
THE NOUN PHRASE
The position of a determiner within the noun phrase depends both on the type of
determiner involved and the type of adjectival construction(s) that are also present.
15.9.1 NUMERALS WITH DETERMINERS
The cardinal numerals follow most determiners:
(80) aynı üç konuşmacı
‘the same three speakers’
(81) bu yedi (tane) iskemle
‘these seven chairs’
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