Ninth graders discover the hallmark of Turkish grammar — agglutination (ekler). Turkish builds words by stacking suffixes onto a root, and the suffix vowels change to harmonize. Watch “ev” (house) grow into evler → evlerim → evlerimde → evlerimden — one word doing the work of a whole English phrase!
Students will be able to…
How can one Turkish word, “ev,” grow into “from my houses”?
Project this and tap each. Watch how “ev” grows one suffix at a time.
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How can one root grow into a whole phrase in Turkish?
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Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Intermediate-Low).
Compare agglutination across languages.
Interpretive: read stacked suffixes.
Recognize word-building patterns.
Presentational: build words.
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Have students grow one Turkish root two suffixes deep (e.g. ev → evler → evlerim). A printable Turkish word-building sheet is in the World Languages library.
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