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09 Jan 2006 Mon 02:32 pm |
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Quoting lululy: Quoting bod: Quoting lululy: when to use "musun" and "misin" for making questions?? |
musun and misin are both formed from the question word mi with the second person possessive suffix -sin added.
Although mi is a seperate word it is considered a suffix and therefore its form follows the vowel harmony rules:
kahve istiyor musun? (present continuous tense)
kahve ister misin?[/i] (aorist tense)
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i need time to understand this...
can you give me more examples?? |
Have you read these two lessons?
http://www.turkishclass.com/grammar_vowelHarmony1.htm
http://www.turkishclass.com/grammar_vowelHarmony2.htm
Consider it like this:
If you add the personal possessive suffix -im to köpek (dog) then you get köpekim (my dog) - actually köpeğim but let's just worry about the vowel harmony for now! But if you add the same suffix to domuz (pig) then the 'i' changes to a 'u' so the word becomes domuzum (my pig).
But -mi is a special case and is considered a suffix even though it is not appended to the word. Therefore it still follows the vowel harmony rules and can have the following forms:
-mi -mı -mu -mü
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09 Jan 2006 Mon 02:57 pm |
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qdemir's explanations are good.
Quote: when to use "musun" and "misin" for making questions?? |
Easy.
-mı (use this after a,ı )
-mi (use this after e,i)
-mu (use this after o,u)
-mü (use this after ö,ü)
Example:
Yemek güzel mX?
what is X? The last vowel before it is "e" (the e in güzel) so we check the table and it says:
-mi (use this after e,i) and therefore we use "mi".
Yemek güzel mi?
Exercise:
Sen Ankara'ya gidiyor mXsXn?
Which one is it?
mısın
misin
musun
müsün
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