"your hand" and kitabun for "your book", the lack of ü vowel in the Trabzon dialect means -un would be used in both of these cases — elun and kitabun. Word-accent With the exceptions stated below, Turkish words are oxytone (accented on the last syllable). Exceptions to word-accent rules Place-names are not oxytone: (Anatolia), . Most place names are accented on their first syllable as in and . This holds true when place names are spelled the same way as common nouns, which are oxytone: (maize), (Egypt), (vinegar-seller), (district in Istanbul), (doll, baby), (district in Istanbul), (army), (a Turkish city on the Black Sea).Foreign nouns usually retain their original accentuation, e.g., (< Italian "restaurant"), (< Greek "fishing line"), (< Italian "newspaper")Some words about family members and living creatures have irregular accentuation: (mother), (older sister), (husband's sister), (brother's wife), (paternal aunt), (maternal aunt), (paternal uncle), (grasshopper), (ant), (skunk)Adverbs are usually accented on the first syllable, e.g., (now), (after), (suddenly), (really), (but (from reality)), (during winter)Compound words are accented on the end of the first element, e.g., (naked), (stark naked), (minister), (prime minister) Diminutives constructed by suffix –cik are accented on the first syllable, e.g., (very tiny), (small house)Words with enclitic suffixes, –le (meaning "with"), –ken (meaning "while"), –ce (creating an adverb), –leyin (meaning "in" or "during"), –me (negating the verbal stem), –yor (denoting the present tense) Enclitic words, which shift the accentuation to the previous syllable, e.g., ol- (meaning to be), mi (denoting a question), gibi (meaning similar to), için (for), ki (that), de (too) Syntax Sentence groups Turkish has two groups of sentences: verbal and nominal sentences. In the case of a verbal sentence, the predicate is a finite verb, while the predicate in nominal sentence will have either no overt verb or a verb in the form of the copula ol or y (variants of "be"). Examples of both are given below: Negation The two groups of sentences have different ways of forming negation. A nominal sentence can be negated with the addition of the word değil. For example, the sentence above would become Necla öğretmen değil ('Necla is not a teacher'). However, the verbal sentence requires the addition of a negative suffix -me to the verb (the suffix comes after the stem but before the tense): Necla okula gitmedi ('Necla did not go to school'). Yes/no questions In the case of a verbal sentence, an interrogative clitic mi