How To Say “MUST/HAVE TO” In Turkish? have you heard “-mak şart or zorunda or mecbur” before? While talking about necessity in the previous lessons, we talked about -meli / -malı, -mAk lazım, -mAk gerek. You can click on the subjects to study or remember. In this lesson, we will talk about a similar structure. […]
Obligation in Turkish (-mAk şart, -mAk zorunda, -mAk mecburiyetinde, -mAyA mecbur) Read More »
What is KENDİ in Turkish? Kendi in Turkish is often translated as self: myself, yourself, herself, himself, himself, themselves. This word can be used alone or with possessive and case suffixes. In Which Situations Is It Used? 1. It makes the sentence reflexive. That is, the subject applies the verb to itself. ⇒Ben, kendimi seviyorum.
If you have heard the phrases mak lazım mak gerek in Turkish before and you don’t know the meaning yet, you will learn all aspects of it in this lesson. At the end of this course you will learn how to say something “should” be done in Turkish. You should have learned the -meli /
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In this lesson you’ll learn what is what is suffixes -dur /-dür / -dır / -dir in Turkish! The suffixes -dur /-dür / -dır / -dir in Turkish is used in two different senses. To understand the meaning of the sentence, you need to look at the context. 1. Meaning of suffixes -dur /-dür /
Meaning of Suffixes -dur /-dür / -dır / -dir in Turkish! Read More »
There is a way to turn verbs into adjectives in Turkish! By using the verbs with some suffixes, we use them before the noun like adjectives. And we name them as Turkish verbal adjectives (sıfat-fiiller). Thus, we have a chance to produce much more adjectives. Let’s make the subject clearer in our minds with a
Turkish Verbal Adjectives -an, -acak, -dik (Türkçede Sıfat-Fiiller) Read More »
WHAT IS THE TURKISH PASSIVE VERB? / PASSIVE VOICE / PASSIVE MOOD (TÜRKÇEDE EDİLGEN FİİL NEDİR?) Turkish passive verbs are a type of verb that you will hear frequently in daily use in Turkish. In some sentences we do not use subjects. So we don’t know if it’s me, you, him, her, us, them. The
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Until now, you have arranged the sentence order in Turkish as “subject + object + verb” (özne + nesne + fiil). That is, the subject is doing a verb, but the object is affected by the verb. In today’s lesson, we will talk about how the subject affects itself, not someone/something else. What helps us
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What is -eli/-alı/-yeli/-yalı in Turkish? And Why is It Used? It is used in a similar sense to the structure (-diğinden/since) that I explained in the previous lesson. -eli/ -alı / -yeli / -yalı suffixes are indicates when the verb begins. We understand that the verb is the starting point and still continuing. Just like
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-diğinden beri in Turkish (Since in Turkish) Before starting -diğinden beri in Turkish (since in Turkish language), it would be appropriate to remind you of the -since/-dir structure that you learned in Turkish A1. Briefly; We use -since/-dir after names to indicate when something starts or where it starts. In other words, we understand when
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Ettirgen-Oldurgan Fiil in Turkish (Turkish Causative Verb) Do you know? You can report that someone else caused a job with only one suffix together verbs in Turkish. The name of this suffix is “ettirgen-oldurgan fiil ekleri”. And the name of verb that take this suffix is “ettirgen-oldurgan fiil” (Turkish Causative Verb). In such sentences, the
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