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Samples of past tense sentences
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 02:11 pm |
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Selam!
Can someone help me by giving me some easy sentences constructed in the simple past tense? Such as,
"I went to work"
"I rode my bike this weekend"
"I didn't understand"
çok teşekkür, arkadaşlar! 
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 02:37 pm |
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First let me remind you how do we form a past tense sentence
Take gelmek for example
Gelmek means to come
İt contain of the verb root ''gel'' and ''mek'' mastar
So to form a past tens of gelmek
Verb root + DI + personal suffix
Gel + di + m ------- İ came
Gel + di + n ------- You came
Gel + di + ------- He came
Gel + di + k ------- We came
Gel + di + niz------ You came 'plural or formal,or with elders'
Gel + di + ler------ They came
Of course you change D to T or I to İ,Ãœ,U accourding to the vowel harmony
Now lets get to the sentences
"I went to work"
İşe giTTim
"I rode my bike this weekend"
Bisikletime bindim bu hafta sonu
"I didn't understand"
Anlamadım
Note that we used the MA suffix 'which is the negative suffix' here right after the verb root then we put the tense suffix ,and the personal suffix as in order
This will help you much too
winmekmak
PS: any correction is welcome
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 02:42 pm |
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Quoting Sil on the Hill: Selam!
Can someone help me by giving me some easy sentences constructed in the simple past tense? Such as,
"I went to work"
"I rode my bike this weekend"
"I didn't understand"
çok teşekkür, arkadaşlar! |
Take the stem of the verb
i.e. git from gitmek-to go
bin from binmek-to ride
anlama from anlamamak-to not understand
add the past simple personal form of the verb 'to be'
i.e dim
din
di
dik
diniz
diler
so I went=gittim
I rode=bindim
I didn't understand =anlamadım
The endings follow the rules of vowel harmony.
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 02:43 pm |
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Sorry-I didn't see your post Canli!
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 02:47 pm |
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2 opinions always better than 1 sonunda
And glad to see more than 1 in language forum FİNALLY 
İ just wish caliptrix can look it up also
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 03:16 pm |
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Thanks for the encouragement! I'm a bit nervous in case I get it wrong but as I've taught myself I know what worked for me.
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 03:40 pm |
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Quoting CANLI: First let me remind you how do we form a past tense sentence
Take gelmek for example
Gelmek means to come
İt contain of the verb root ''gel'' and ''mek'' mastar
So to form a past tens of gelmek
Verb root + DI + personal suffix
Gel + di + m ------- İ came
Gel + di + n ------- You came
Gel + di + ------- He came
Gel + di + k ------- We came
Gel + di + niz------ You came 'plural or formal,or with elders'
Gel + di + ler------ They came
Of course you change D to T or I to İ,Ãœ,U accourding to the vowel harmony
Now lets get to the sentences
"I went to work"
İşe giTTim
"I rode my bike this weekend"
Bisikletime bindim bu hafta sonu
"I didn't understand"
Anlamadım
Note that we used the MA suffix 'which is the negative suffix' here right after the verb root then we put the tense suffix ,and the personal suffix as in order
This will help you much too
winmekmak
PS: any correction is welcome |
Thank you so much, Canli! What great instruction.
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 03:41 pm |
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Quoting sonunda: Sorry-I didn't see you post Canli! |
Sonunda, thank you also to you! I appreciate all replies and I, too, am teaching myself. I love it and hope to be fluent so I can stop asking questions!! I am glad for the language support and encouragement!
Kendine iyi bak,
Silvia
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 04:10 pm |
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Fluent eh? Good luck with that! 
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22 Mar 2008 Sat 04:18 pm |
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Quoting Sil on the Hill:
çok teşekkür, arkadaşlar! |
Çok teşekkürler with -ler or
Çok teşşekkür ederim would be better
Canlı's explanations seems fine. Good job. Furthermore, there are narrative/hearsay past "-miş" and combinations of a past tense and one of anothers or these two past tenses.
Sinemaya gitti
Sinemaya gitmiş
Sinemaya gidiyordu
Sinemaya gidiyormuş
Sinemaya gidecekti
Sinemaya gidecekmiş
Sinemaya gitmişti
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