gereç

Turkish

Etymology

Coined during the language reform; appears in Cep Kılavuzu (1935). Created either via gerek (“necessity”) +‎ -ç and simply leaving out the final /k/, or by calque of Arabic مَادَّة‎ (mādda), related to مَدَّ‎ (madda, “to extend, to stretch”), which in turn was taken as a model for ger- (“to extend, to stretch”) +‎ -ç.[1]. See also araç. In favor of the first possibility would speak the fact that gereç was glossed as levazım (“necessities”) in Cep Kılavuzu[2].

Noun

gereç

equipment, supply
material

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

gereç

Definite accusative

araci

Singular

Plural

Nominative

gereç

gereçler

Definite accusative

araci

gereçleri

Dative

arace

gereçlere

Locative

gereçte

gereçlerde

Ablative

gereçten

gereçlerden

Genitive

aracin

gereçlerin

Possessive forms
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	aracim	gereçlerim
2nd singular	aracin	gereçlerin
3rd singular	araci	gereçleri
1st plural	aracimiz	gereçlerimiz
2nd plural	araciniz	gereçleriniz
3rd plural	gereçleri	gereçleri

Predicative forms
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	aracim	gereçlerim
2nd singular	gereçsin	gereçlersin
3rd singular	gereç gereçtir	gereçler gereçlerdir
1st plural	araciz	gereçleriz
2nd plural	gereçsiniz	gereçlersiniz
3rd plural	gereçler	gereçlerdir

References

Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 112
“gereç”, in Türkçeden Osmanlıcaya Cep Kılavuzu [Pocket Guide from Turkish to Ottoman Turkish] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Devlet basımevi, 1935, page 130

[1] Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 112

[2] “gereç”, in Türkçeden Osmanlıcaya Cep Kılavuzu [Pocket Guide from Turkish to Ottoman Turkish] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Devlet basımevi, 1935, page 130