Talk:uyruklu

RFC discussion: May 2013–July 2021

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uyruklu

tabiyetli

These are supposedly adjectives meaning "citizen of". I'm not sure how that works. Adjectives modify nouns, but "citizen of" would seem to require that the noun following it not be the one modified (e.g. in "citizen of Germany", "citizen of" is describing Angela Merkel, not "Germany"). - -sche (discuss) 20:56, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

@Djkcel can you check whether these are defined correctly/fluently, or if the definitions should be worded differently? (I see e.g. yabancı uyruklu glossed as "foreign national".) - -sche (discuss) 21:33, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Sure. tabiyetli (although it is spelled wrong, it should be tâbiiyetli) is indeed an adjective; you can use it before the name of the country. e.g. tâbiiyetli İsviçre "Swiss person" or with a noun before it Rus tâbiiyetli "Russian person." uyruklu, on the other hand, is far more common, both officially and colloquially, but I usually see it after a noun, e.g. Irak uyruklu. I like to think of it as meaning a "national.". DJ K-Çel (contribs ~ talk) 23:12, 12 July 2021 (UTC)