ögrencileri

Öğrencileri is the Turkish word form used to mark a group of students as the direct object in a sentence. It is derived from öğrenci (student) with the plural suffix -ler to become öğrenciler (students) and the accusative suffix -i, yielding öğrencileri. The form illustrates Turkish suffixal order and vowel harmony, where case and number markers attach to the noun in a single unit.

In usage, öğrencileri denotes “the students” as the object of a verb. For example, in the sentence “Öğrencileri sınıfa götürdü,” the subject took the students to the classroom. In another example, “Öğrencileri gördüm” means “I saw the students.” Turkish lacks an explicit definite article, so the definite sense is derived from context rather than a separate word.

The form can appear in different syntactic contexts depending on the sentence, but its core function remains the same: signaling that the noun phrase refers to students as the object of the action. To express possession or a different nuance, Turkish uses separate suffixes and word order rather than altering the base word independently; for instance, to refer to “their students” a possessive construction such as öğrencilerinin would be used, with a genitive suffix added to the plural noun.

Related terms include öğrenci (singular student) and öğrenciler (students). The word is common in educational contexts, media, and everyday Turkish, and it serves as a typical example of Turkish inflectional morphology with plural and accusative suffixes.