Payer, debt or sum, payee, goods, means · Turkish cloth · working claim, revisable
The payer is the subject. A full noun in that slot has no case suffix. The subject pronoun may be absent. The verb then shows the person. ödemek has one direct-object slot. TDK marks sense 1 -i. The sources fill that slot with the debt or with the sum. Accusative -(y)I is on a specific object. A nonspecific object is bare. That difference is specificity of the same object. It is not a second role. The payee is not that object. In the definition the creditor is dative alacaklıya. No example of ödemek prints a person as the direct object. Goods are için. The means is -(y)lA
Payer · subject of ödemek · no case suffix · TDK Bu fabrika sermayesini beş yılda ödedi · the noun fabrika has no suffix · şu borcu ödeyeyim · Peyami Safa, under borç · no ben · the verb is first person · Bu eşyalar için kaç lira ödediniz? · under için, sense 8 · no siz · the verb is second person plural · Göksel & Kerslake 2025 contents: expression of the subject §12.1.2, p. 131 · agreement §12.2, p. 132 · omission of personal pronouns §18.1.5, p. 280 · the section bodies were not opened · English Wiktionary’s table names ben, sen, o beside ödedim, ödedin, ödedi and prints no clause
Direct object · the debt or the sum · TDK sense 1, marked -i: Bir alışveriş ilişkisinde, borcu alacaklıya vermek; tediye etmek · example Borç varsa benimkidir, onu ödemek ve teşekkür etmek lazım · R. H. Karay · onu is accusative, and it resumes borç · the noun article of borç prints şu borcu ödeyeyim · borcu is accusative · sense 4: Bu fabrika sermayesini beş yılda ödedi · sermayesini is accusative · one object slot in these lines · the payee is not in them
Accusative and the bare object · the same slot · accusative -(y)I on a specific object · no suffix when the object is nonspecific · Göksel & Kerslake 2005, p. 326, as cited by von Heusinger & Yıldız 2025: the accusative marks a specific reading against a non-specific one · the same article cites p. 178 for an unmarked direct object that is not next to the verb · the 2025 contents still title §14.3.3.1 “The non-case-marked noun phrase”, p. 178, and §14.3.3.2 “The accusative case marker”, p. 180 · those section bodies were not opened · TDK prints the accusative on onu, borcu, and sermayesini · the sum in kaç lira ödediniz has no accusative suffix · fatura is not in any ödemek clause on the pages opened · fatura ödedim and faturayı ödedim are constructed · the suffix on the bill is specificity, not a different role
Payee · dative -(y)A · not the direct object · TDK sense 1 and sense 2 put the creditor in the definition as alacaklıya · sense 2: Bir alışverişte alınan şeyin karşılığını alacaklıya vermek · that dative is definition prose · no example of ödemek prints alacaklıya or any other person · no example prints a person as the accusative object · English pay the waiter has no matching direct object · garsona ödedim is constructed on the dative of alacaklıya · Göksel & Kerslake 2025 contents: §14.3.3.3 “The dative case marker”, p. 181 · the section body was not opened · a different headword does print a dative person: hesap görmek, hamallara onar kuruştan hesap göreceksin · that verb is not ödemek
Goods · için · TDK için sense 8 is glossed Karşılığında, karşılık olarak · the example is Bu eşyalar için kaç lira ödediniz? · eşyalar is under için · kaç lira is the sum, with no accusative suffix · no payee is in the clause · the postposition karşılığında is the gloss · it is not the form in the example · a clause yemeğin karşılığında ödemek is unprinted · karşılık sense 4 is the noun karşılığı, not that postposition
Bill · the noun fatura is the seller’s slip: Satılan bir malın cinsini, miktarını ve fiyatını bildirmek için satıcının alıcıya verdiği hesap pusulası · the example does not contain ödemek · hesap sense 4 is Ödenecek ücretin dökümünü ve tutarını gösteren kâğıt; hesap pusulası, adisyon · that article does not print hesabı ödemek · hesabı ödemek is not a headword · hesabı kapatmak is a headword, and its sense is not the bill: her türlü ilişkiyi bitirmek, sona erdirmek · Sulhi Dölek, Bir hesabı daha kapatmış olmanın gönül rahatlığıyla ıslık çalarak indim merdivenlerden · the two are not printed as payment synonyms · kapatmak’s own article does not add a bill sense
karşılamak · sense 5 of that verb is the gloss Masrafı ödemek · masrafı in the gloss is accusative · the sense prints no example · sense 3 of ödemek uses the same verb in its own gloss, Bedelini vererek bir zararı karşılamak; tazmin etmek, and that sense also prints no example · the payment reading is the gloss · a finite clause is unprinted
Means · -(y)lA · not printed on ödemek · the noun taksit is Bir borcun belli zamanlarda ödenmesi gerekli olan parçalarından her biri · the definition uses ödenmesi · the example puts taksitle on almak: taksitle her şeyi alabilirsin · Çetin Altan · taksitle ödemek is not a headword · kartla ödemek is unprinted · both are constructed if a clause is needed · Göksel & Kerslake 2025 abbreviations include ins instrumental · no section title for that suffix was opened
Off the bill · sense 5 of ödemek is marked mecaz: Bir işin, bir görevin karşılığını vermek · alın terini ödemiyordu · E. C. Güney · sense 6 is also mecaz and prints no example · those stay off the bill
Where this frame diverges from English pay the bill and pay someone. English pay the bill makes the document the one object and brings the sum back as with or in. English pay the waiter can make the person that object. Turkish ödemek does not. The direct object is the debt or the sum. Accusative -(y)I on that object marks a specific bill or debt. The bare noun is the same role without that marking. fatura ödedim and faturayı ödedim are constructed for that split. TDK does not print fatura with the verb. The payee is dative. The definition says alacaklıya. No line prints the person as the direct object. garsona ödedim is constructed. Goods are için, in Bu eşyalar için kaç lira ödediniz?. hesabı ödemek is not a headword. hesabı kapatmak is a headword for ending a relationship, not for the bill.