Students in uzeyir´s group:

1. alameda

2. smiley

3. Jetsetter

4. tinababy

5. justintime

6. Trudy

7. tatysugi

8. janine

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In the first excercise of nouns there are 3 sentences:

Biz İstanbul´da yaşıyoruz.
Ali parkda top oynuyor.
Kitap masada duruyor.

The first I have no idea what we are doing in Istanbul, the second is Ali plays football in the park (I know after you told me, Uzeyir) and the third is the book stays on the table.

My problem with these verbs is that I have no idea what they mean. I think I know the reason though, if I make the infinitive of these conjugations I can look it up in the dictionary online. But.... there are sometimes so many options that I get confused and don´t know which meaning to choose. Besides that, some verbs excist of 2 words, something I don´t know upfront. See sentence 2: oynuyor comes from oynamak but it seems i need to use the word top as well. That all makes it very difficult to understand the meaning. How can I learn this better? Are there any tricks?

Biz İstanbul´da yaşıyoruz. : We live in İstanbul.

If I were you,I´d get my dictionary and try to conjugate the infinitive verbs.

Like this;

oynamak : to play

oynuyorum : I´m playing / I play

oynadım : I (have) played.

The conjugation is not really the problem. The fact that one verb has more meanings is one problem - which do I need to choose? - and the other is that a verb consist from 2 words, like telefon etmek, where is many cases I don´t know they belong together and thus I can´t find them in the dictionary. My question is: is there a trick to learn this sooner?

Hi Trudy,

I don´t think there are any tricks to learn this fast .As a begginer I double-click on word,look at EVERYTHING written in dictionary under my chosen word and then I pick out the nearest meaning. .Sometimes it helps if you have a little clue of whole sentence.

About "telefon etmek";this is in dictionary,at least in Turkish Dictionary for Language Learners which you can download from home page of TC.Very usefull thing,believe me.