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Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

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Vowel harmony 25<br />

(c) The suffix -ki (8.1.4) optionally undergoes vowel harmony after gün ‘day’ and<br />

dün ‘yesterday’: dünki/dünkü ‘yesterday’s’.<br />

(vii) The following clitics are invariable (11.1): bile, ki, ya, ile and ise: baktım ki ‘upon<br />

seeing’, söyledim ya ‘but I have said [it]’, Korhan ile ‘Korhan and…’, bunlar ise ‘as for<br />

these’.<br />

See also 2.6.

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