The Tenses

(There are 6 different types of tense that you will use in Turkish; this is the type of “person” that you are referring to).

In English we would normally write; “I learn” or “You learn”. The verb almost never changes, except for when you’re talking with “he or she or it” or if the verb is an irregular. Whereas, in Turkish, each type of “person” that you speak in will cause the verb to change (this also applies if the verb is an irregular).

There isn’t a translation that can be exactly what some phrases mean in Turkish, but we can translate them enough to make sense in English.

The 6 tenses are;

I                                               Ben

You (Singular)                             Sen

You (Plural)                                Siz

He/She                                      O

They                                         Onlar

We                                           Biz

You have listed personal pronouns not tenses. Tenses = present, past, future, conditional, optative, etc. (last 2 are modal tenses)

Aren´t conditional and optative considered mode (or mood)?

Tenses need/indicate temporal reference points (past, present, future). There is some info here.

i would call conditional and optative ´modal tenses´ http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/English_ESL/Rules_Modal_Verbs.html

but my point was that calling ´ben, sen, o, biz, siz and onlar´  ´tenses´ is not correct.

Nevertheless, I have made a search and located an interesting document about tenses, which can be accessed here.

Thank you - but it doesn´t alter the fact that she was calling personal pronouns ´tenses´