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How does the future tense work, for eg. I will go, I will eat, I will sleep etc
1.       Polyglot
481 posts
 04 Apr 2009 Sat 07:42 pm

Merhaba dostlarým

 

How does the future tense work, for eg. I will go, I will eat, I will sleep etc

 

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2.       tomac
975 posts
 04 Apr 2009 Sat 08:23 pm

Generally, you have to follow these steps:

 

  • Make verb root by taking a verb and removing "-mek" / "-mak" suffix (examples)

    gelmek (to come) -> gel
    söylemek (to say) -> söyle
    uyumak (to sleep) -> uyu
    kalmak (to stay) -> kal
  • You append "-(y)ecek / -(y)acak" suffix to a root. ´y´ is a buffer letter here, you have to use it if a root ends with a vowel, and after it you append "ecek/acak" ; otherwise, you simply append "ecek/acak". The choice between "ecek" and "acak" depends on vowel harmony.

    gelecek -> Last vowel of root is ´e´, so we use "ecek"
    söyleyecek -> Last vowel of root is ´e´, and root ends with vowel, so we use "yecek"
    uyuyacak -> Last vowel of root is ´u´, and root ends with vowel, so we use "yacak"
    kalacak -> Last vowel is ´a´, so we use "acak"
  • You append personal ending:
    I - im   you (singular) - sin  he/she/it - (no ending),
    we - iz you (plural) - siniz   they - lar

    (you have to apply vowel harmony to this suffixes too)

    Because of consonant mutation, if suffix starts with i or ý you also have to change ´k´ letter in "acak/ecek" suffix into ´Ã°´. So for example:                              

    geleceksin - you will come
    söyleyeceðim - I will say (k transformed into ð)
    uyuyacaksýnýz - You will sleep (notice that siniz changed to sýnýz because of vowel harmony)
    kalacaðýz - We will stay (k transformed into ð)

    Maybe it would be easier for you to replace two last points with one: append one of the following suffixes depending on person:

    I - eceðim / acaðým
    you (singular) - eceksin / acaksýn
    he/she/it - ecek / acak

    we - eceðiz / acaðýz
    you (plural) - eceksiniz / acaksýnýz
    they - ecekler / acaklar

You can also look here for explanation: http://turkishclass.com/turkish_lesson_70
By the way - I really recommend to you reading "Learn Turkish / lessons by admin" on this site, I started from this and it is really valuable resource for me (for example, tenses, vowel and consonant harmony are explained there) . Also, you may be interested in "Manisa Turkish" site, which is currently available in archived form here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080202222619/www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/index.htm

And I guess you will find this program very helpful:

http://ipb.nu/winmekmak/

 

It lets you for example type verb and see how it looks in different tenses - it is really great tool!

I hope I didn´t make anything wrong here good luck with your learning !

 



Edited (4/4/2009) by tomac
Edited (4/4/2009) by tomac [correction in examples]

3.       Polyglot
481 posts
 05 Apr 2009 Sun 12:08 pm

thank you so much for your help

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