Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

For the agreement of a predicate with a subject containing a pronominalized determiner,
see 12.2.2.3.
19.2.1.5 kaç ‘how many’
kaç (15.6.1) is used for inquiring about the number of entities denoted by a noun phrase.
It occupies the position of a numeral in a noun phrase (see 15.9.2) and can be used with
the enumerator tane and measure terms such as avuç ‘(a) handful (of)’ (15.8), and is
followed by a noun without plural marking (14.3.1.1 (ii)).
(66) Günde kaç (tane) çay içiyorsun?
‘How many [cups of] tea do you drink a day?’
(67) Okula bu yıl kaç kişi alacaksınız?
‘How many people will you admit to the school this year?’
As a pronoun (suffixed with a possessive marker, see 18.4 (iv)) it can occur with
modifiers, which are usually ablative-marked, but can also be genitive-marked (14.5.2–
3):
(68) Öğrencilerden kaçı derse girmemiş?
‘How many of the students appear to have been absent?’
As in the case of hangi above, the modifier in the partitive construction can be an
ablative-marked phrase based on iç- or ara- ‘among’ (17.3.1.3):
(69) İçinizden kaçı araba kullanmayı biliyor?
‘How many of you know how to drive?’
kaç is also used when asking about clock time:
(70) Saat kaç?
‘What time is it?’
(71) Kaçla kaç arasında arayayım seni?
‘Between what [times] should I call you?’
In questions about a person’s age, kaç is the modifier in a -sI compound (10.2, 15.3.2)
(72) O çocuk kaç yaşında?
‘How old is that child?’
Questions 263
19.2.1.6 ne kadar ‘how much’
ne kadar ‘how much’ is used for asking about the following:
(i) The quantity of a particular (usually uncountable) inanimate entity:
(73) Muhallebiye ne kadar şeker koyulur?
‘How much sugar is used in milk pudding?’
(74) Bundan ne kadar istiyorsun?
‘How much of this do you want?’