buradaki

Buradaki is a Turkish chacteristic form of the demonstrative phrase meaning “in this place” or “the one here.” It functions as a determiner-adjective that specifies the location of a referent relative to the speaker. The word is built from the adverbial locative burada (here) plus the relative suffix -ki, which turns a demonstrative into a modifier that points to a noun located at the referenced place.

Usage and meaning

- Buradaki usually precedes a noun to indicate that the noun is located in or near the speaker’s current location. Examples: buradaki masa (the desk here), buradaki insanlar (the people here). The form can agree with number and case like other Turkish attributive adjectives.

- It can function as a relative or demonstrative in discourse, sometimes serving a pronominal role when the noun is understood from context, e.g., Buradaki (the one here) as a noun phrase in conversation.

- The sense is inherently spatial and contrastive: buradaki refers to items in this place, as opposed to oradaki (the one there) or dışardaki (the one outside).

Columns of nuance

- The phrase emphasizes proximity; it often marks definiteness about which person or thing is being discussed.

- It is commonly used in descriptive sentences about people, objects, or events located in the current locale.

Examples

- Buradaki masa kırık mı? (Is the desk here broken?)

- Buradaki insanlar çok misafirperver. (The people here are very hospitable.)

- Buradaki olaylar önceki raporda anlatılanlardan farklı. (The events here differ from those described in the previous report.)

See also

- Turkish grammar

- -ki suffix (relative/demonstrative suffix)

- Demonstratives in Turkish

- Locative constructions in Turkish

Note: Buradaki is distinct from related forms such as oradaki (the one there) and dışardaki (the one outside), which use the same -ki mechanism with different locatives.