Now we're going to talk a little bit about the question word in Turkish
Nere
What place? Or, where? If you want to ask
"where?" in Turkish in the sense of, in what place, you're going to add the locative suffix
locative case ending -de to
nere- "what place?" So literally in what place, where?
For example if you want to ask "Where is Istanbul? In what place is Istanbul?" you can say..
Istanbul nerede?
Where is this Istanbul? In what place is Istanbul?
However, if you want to ask "Where?" in the sense of
"To what place?" for example "Where are you going? To what place are you going?"
We're going to add the dative case ending to nere-
so to ask "To what place? Where?"
We're going to say
nereye?
with this dative case ending.
Nereye? Where to?
So for example if we want to ask "Where are you going? To what place are you going?" We're going to say
Nereye
To what place
gidiyorsun?
you are going?
So, "what place are you going?"
If on the other hand you want to ask "where?" in the sense of "from what place?"
We're going to use the ablative case ending -den
Nereden?
To mean from what place for example if you want to ask, where are you coming from from what place are you coming?
We're going to say
nere then
get your
soon
so
From what place are you coming? Where are you coming from?
We can do the same thing with the words,
the Turkish words, "bura"
this place
"şura"
this place or that place and
"ora"
that place over there
So let's see if we want to say, "in this place" we can simply say
burada
If we want to say "in this place or in that place" we can say
şurada
For "that place over there" or "in that place" we can say
orada
All with the locative case ending and again if we want to say "to that place"
Excuse me, "to this place" we will say
buraya
With this dative case ending, "buraya": to this place and again for...
We will say "şuraya"
To this place or to that place and again with "ora". We want to say "to that place" we will say, "oraya"
To that place
Where are you going? I'm going to that place.
Oraya gidiyorum
And finally we can add the
Ablative case ending to "bura," "şura," and "ora" also so we can say "from this place"
Buradan
An answer to the question "Nereden geliyorsun?"
Where are you coming from?
We can answer "Buradan geliyorum": I am coming from this place
Same with "şura"
"şuradan": from this place or from that place and finally with "ora"
plus the ablative case ending -dan: from that place.