Azərbaycan dili (əcnəbi və vətəndaşlığı olmayan iddiaçılar üçün)
What the section tests
This paper checks formal Azerbaijani: reading comprehension of academic and official texts, grammar and language use, and short written production. Candidates must control şəkilçilər (suffixes), because Azerbaijani is agglutinative: one word can carry plural, case and possessive markers in sequence. Know the vowel-harmony pairs (a–ı, e–ə/i, o–u, ö–ü) that decide which suffix variant appears. Understand the six cases - adlıq, yiyəlik, yönlük, təsirlik, yerlik, çıxışlıq - and how they mark subject, possessor, direction, object, location and origin.
Grammar points to master
- Possessive constructions: universitetin kitabxanası - the possessor takes yiyəlik, the possessed takes the third-person possessive suffix.
- Verb tenses: present -ır/-ir, past -dı, perfect -ıb, future -acaq, and the obligatory -malı.
- Plural after numbers: a numeral is followed by the singular (beş tələbə, not beş tələbələr).
- Word order: subject–object–verb, with the predicate last; modifiers precede their nouns.
Traps to expect
Items often test consonant assimilation in suffixes (kitabda but dəftərdə), the difference between ki as a relative connector and as a suffix, and false friends between Azerbaijani and Turkish vocabulary. In reading tasks, a word repeated from the passage may appear in a wrong option.
Rule of thumb
Before choosing a suffix, identify the last vowel of the stem and whether the final consonant is voiceless (p, ç, t, k, f, s, ş, x) - that decides -da/-də versus -ta/-tə. Example: Bakıda, but kitabda and üstündə; səhifədə. Write a short formal paragraph using at least two case suffixes and one possessive construction, then reread for harmony errors.