UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
(SAYILAMAYAN İSİMLER)

Saylılamayan isimler haklarında kesin bir miktar söylenemeyen, tekil veya çoğul olamayan isim türüdür.

a) He bought some, chairs, desks, and tripods. In other words, he bought some furniture.
b) I never have sugar with tea

Bir çok tanecikten ve birimden oluşan Genel Gurup Adları sayılamaz.

c) He has courage.
Sayılamayan isimler genellikle soyut kavramların isimleride olabilirler.

d) Rain is needed in agricultural areas.

Doğa olaylarının isimleri sayılamayan isimlerdir.

SAYILAMAYAN İSİMLER İÇİN REFERANS LİSTE
Aşağıda sayılamayan isimlerin sınıfalandırıldığı bir liste bulunmaktadır, fakat unutmayınız ki daha bir çok sayılamayan isim burada yer almamaktadır.

a) Benzer birimlerden oluşan Gurup isimleri: baggage, clothing, equipment food, fruit, furniture, garbage, hardware, jewelry, junk, luggage, machinery, mail, makeup, money, cash, change, postage, scenery, traffic, etc..


b) Sıvılar: water, coffee, tea, milk, oil, soup , gasoline , blood, etc..
c) Katılar : ice, bread, cheese, meat, gold, iron, silver, glass, paper, wood, cotton, wool, etc..
d) Gazlar : steam, air, oxygen, etc
e) Tanecikler: rice, chalk, corn dirt, dust, etc..
f) Soyut Kavramlar: beauty, luck, courage, fear, justice, etc..
g) Dil İsimleri: Turkish, English, German, etc..
h) Bilim Alanları : Chemistry, physics, Semantics, etc.
i) Spor Faaliyetleri: baseball, soccer, tennis, etc..
j) Aktiviteler(Gerunds): driving, shopping, swimming, etc..
k) Doğa olayları : weather, dew, fog, rain, snow, etc…

  Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot "count" them. For example, we cannot count "milk". We can count "bottles of milk" or "litres of milk", but we cannot count "milk" itself.

Here are some more uncountable nouns:music, art, love, happiness advice, information, news furniture, luggage rice, sugar, butter, water electricity, gas, power money, currency

We usually treat uncountable nouns as singular. We use a singular verb. For example:

This news is very important.

Your luggage looks heavy.

We do not usually use the indefinite article a/an with uncountable nouns. We cannot say "an information" or "a music". But we can say a something of:

a piece of news

a bottle of water

a grain of rice

We can use some and any with uncountable nouns:

I've got some money.

Have you got any rice?

We can use a little and much with uncountable nouns:

I've got a little money.

I haven't got much rice.