köbüsü
/købysy/
majority, most, the greater part — Normally follows a noun in the genitive case, as in adamlanı köbüsü "most people".
- adamlanı köbüsü — most of the people
- jaşlanı köbüsü keldi — most of the boys came
- sözleni köbüsün bileme — I know most of the words
- üyleni köbüsü jaŋıdı — most of the houses are new
- qoylanı köbüsü egiz qozula tuwadıla — most of the sheep give birth to twin lambs
- mülkleni köbüsü — most of the farms
Cases
| Case | —plain |
|---|---|
| Nominative | köbüsüthe majority |
| Genitive | köbüsünüthe majority's |
| Accusative | köbüsünthe majority (as the object) |
| Dative | köbüsüneto the majority |
| Locative | köbüsündein / at the majority |
| Ablative | köbüsündenfrom the majority |
This word is itself a possessed form, so its endings take a possessive's buffer n — köbüsüne, köbüsünde — and it takes no further owner and no plural.
The endings are the same ones the pronouns wear — that page explains when each case is used.