Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Pronouns 247
(107) Kızkardeşin senin şişmanın.
‘Your sister is a plumper version of you.’
(ii) Numerals (15.7) (with or without the enumerator tane or measure terms (15.8); see
also 14.5.2–3): ikisi ‘two (of them)’, beş tanesi ‘five (of them)’, üç bardağı ‘three glasses
(of it)’. (Numerals cannot be used with the 3rd person plural possessive suffix.)
(108) Bütün kalemler kayboldu sanmıştım ama ikisi/iki tanesi burada.
‘I thought all the pencils were lost, but two (of them) are here.’
Note that the addition of her ‘every’ and/or the clitic dA (11.1.1.2) to pronominalized
numerical expressions makes them definite. Thus, for example, her ikisi and (her) ikisi de
mean ‘both (of them)’ (cf. 15.9.1).
(iii) The enumerator tane and measure terms (15.8): tanesi ‘each one (of …)’, şişesi ‘a
bottle (of…)’. (These cannot be used with any of the other possessive suffixes.)
(109) Kilosunu on milyon liradan satacaklar.
‘They’re going to sell it for ten million liras a kilogram.’
Expressions consisting of a numeral followed by the enumerator tane or a measure term
can be used pronominally without the addition of a possessive suffix. This usage is
generally confined to inanimate referents:
(110) Çamaşır makinası bozulmuş. Yeni bir tane almamız lazım.
‘The washing machine has broken down. We must get a new one.’
(111) İki kilo versene.
‘Give me two kilograms.’
(iv) Indefinite and definite determiners (15.6.1–2, 14.5.2–3): aynısı ‘the same (one)’,
başkası ‘another (one)’, bazısı ‘some (of them)’, birçoğu ‘many (of them)’, bir
bölümü/bir kısmı ‘some (of it/them)’, biri(si) ‘someone’, ‘one (of them)’, birkaçı ‘a few
(of them)’, bütünü ‘all of it’, çoğu ‘most (of them)’, ‘most people’, diğeri ‘the other
(one)’, hangisi ‘which (one)’, herhangi biri(si) ‘any (one)’, hiçbiri(si) ‘none (of them)’
(see also 20.5.2), ilki ‘the first (one)’, kaçı ‘how many (of them)’, kimisi ‘some (of
them)’, ne kadarı ‘how much (of it)’, öbürü/↓öbürkisi/ötekisi ‘the other (one)’, sonuncusu
‘the last (one)’, böylesi ‘this kind’, ‘this way’. (Of these determiners, birkaç, çok, hiçbir,
kaç and ne kadar (except when this latter is used with adjectives (19.2.1.6 (ii)) cannot be
used with the 3rd person plural possessive suffix. aynı can be used with any of the
possessive suffixes, including the 1st and 2nd person singular forms.)
(112) Aynısını istiyorum.
‘I want [one of] the same.’
(113) Bazılarımız senin gibi düşünmüyor.
‘Some of us wouldn’t agree with you.’
(v) The adverbial hep ‘always’: hepsi ‘all (of it/them)’. (hep cannot be used with the 3rd
person plural possessive suffix.)
(114) Hepsini katılımcılara mı vereceksiniz?
‘Are you going to give all of it/them to the participants?’