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.

ok... forgive my ignorance, but where do i submit my homework? there is part that says add answer, but it is being posted in public.... so... i´m not sure how it all works yet...

 It´s not public. Only the teacher can view your answers. Just use the ´add answer´ button, fill in your answers and submit. You´ll see then the original homework, your answer below that and after evaluation the corrects answers below that too, so three in a row.

oh thank you for making it clear to me... ...

I was looking at the homework assignments for the coming week and besides doing it, I´d like to translate the sentences and words as well, thus increasing my vocabulary. I know güzel means beautiful but in what way is ´güzel mi´ a sentence as stated in one of the excersises? Does it mean ´are you beautiful´ or ´who/what is beautiful´? Maybe silly to ask but I couldn´t make a real sentence from just these two words.

Hi Trudy,

I hope this helps your understanding a bit.

Güzel mi? Is a question asking ´Is he/she/it beautiful?´ 

The homework is there to test your understanding of vowel harmony for question words.

As always the more you learn, the more questions you have to ask to help understand things.

In the Beginner 2 group, the Section 2, ( Homework 2) has examples of questions in first person, second person, third person variations.

Examples

Güzel miyim? (Am I beautiful?) (mi + buffer ´y´ + ´im" 1st person singular suffix)

Güzel misin? (Are you beautiful?) (mi + ´sin´ 2nd person singular informal suffix)

Thanks Henry, now I see. The vowel part I find not difficult but I have problems to learn and reproduce vocab (I´m too old I guess....   ) so that´s why I want to translate as an exercise as well.

I seem to have missed something..... with locative and ablative, when do we use te, ta, ten, tan?

Isn´t it the same as -de, -da, -den and -dan? In that case: http://www.turkishclass.com/tl_lesson.php?lesson_id=66

More over locative and ablative comes in section 3, so from August 25th.

Thx, but my confusion is when to use ´te´ rather than ´de´ for example. ....

Janine, I have the same doubt: when should I use _te or _de? Are they the same in meaning and in usage?