After studying for some months I now feel that when I read a text in Turkish, I understand the beginning of most words...

I thought it´s time for me to try to produce sentences. There is no other way to get further now especially because I have no native informant around.

I´d be grateful if one of our teachers of natives could add here Translate into Turkish type exercises, simple sentences where the learner has to pay attention to several grammatical and lexical matters at the same time.

If I had the time to work on fifteen-twenty sentences for instance for a week and after that (not before, because I might fall into temptation and crib!) found the correct answers here I´d have the chance to argue with myself and practice trial and error (which is an excellent way to learn).

Maybe someone else could find this useful, too.

Have you ever studied with a grammar book e.g. Teach Yourself Turkish? 

Here you go:

Öyle sarhoş olsam ki
Bir an seni unutsam
Unutsam bugünleri
Yarınları unutsam

Öyle sarhoş olsam ki
Bir daha ayılmasam
Herşey bir rüya olsa

Unutarak uyansam

Seni gördüğüm günü
Sevdiğimi unutsam
Bir başka dünya bulsam
İçinde sen olmasan

Öyle sarhoş olsam ki
Bir daha ayılmasam
Herşey bir rüya olsa
Unutarak uyansam

Öyle sarhoş olsam ki
Bir an seni unutsam
Unutsam bugünleri
Yarınları unutsam unutsam

This is a famous song by Tanju Okan.

It´s a good opportunity for you to study "-sa/-se dilek kipi" (wish mode).

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Yes, sonunda, I studied grammar, mostly from Manisa Turkish. I know the basics but what lacks is routine, I guess.

MrsBee, thanks, I did some of these exercises, but thanks for collecting the links together.

I´ll study the song, si++, probably I´ll find the melody in YouTube, too... I also noticed sometimes songs lyrics stick into a certain grammatical form, and it´s an easy way to get used to it.

But. What I actually meant is exercises like translating "Ali went to school by bike which his father bought for him last spring" into Turkish. The sentences are actually simple but the learner has to pay attention to many things at the same time (word order, moods and tenses, noun states, basic lexical choices etc.).

Oh I see.

I will work out on your example to kick the ball for you:

Ali went to school by bike which his father bought for him last spring.

1-First the subject and verb

Ali went to school by bike which his father bought for him last spring.

Ali went. = Ali gitti.

2-Add the place adverb

Ali went to school by bike which his father bought for him last spring.

Ali went to school.  = Ali okula gitti.

3-Add instrumentalis.

Ali went to school by bike which his father bought for him last spring.

Ali went to school by bike. = Ali bisikletle okula gitti.

4-Hmm there is subclause:

which his father bought for him last spring -> his father bought a bycicle for him last spring

Now go through the same cycle for the subclause:

4a-

his father bought a bycicle for him last spring

his father bought = babası satın aldı

4b-

his father bought a bycicle for him last spring

his father bought a bycicle = babası bir bisiklet satın aldı

4c-

his father bought a bycicle for him last spring

his father bought a bycicle for him = babası ona bir bisklet satın aldı

4d-

his father bought a bycicle for him last spring

his father bought a bycicle for him last spring = babası geçen ilkbaharda ona bir bisiklet satın aldı

Now you need to turn this into a subclause in Turkish

S +O + V -> S+Genitive suffix  (others)  V+-dik + personal suffix O

the bike which his father bought for him last spring

babası-nın geçen ilkbaharda ona satın al-dığ-ı bisiklet

Subject: babası

Subject+Genitive suffix: babası-nın

Others: geçen ilkbaharda ona

Verb=Satın al-

V+ -dik+personal suffix: satın al-dığ-ı

Now combine:

Ali went to school by bike. = Ali bisikletle okula gitti.

and

the bike which his father bought for him last spring

babası-nın geçen ilkbaharda ona satın al-dığ-ı bisiklet

Ali went to school by bike which his father bought for him last spring.

Ali went to school by bike which his father bought for him last spring . =

Ali babası-nın geçen ilkbaharda ona satın al-dığ-ı bisikletle okula gitti.

Notice if you ignore the subjects (Ali and babası in the subclause) the order of one seems like a completely reverse order of the other.

and as such...

Thanks for your patience, si++.

thanks alote its a very clear explenation

benim bazi cumlelerim var ama dogru vaya yanlish bilimiyorum

1-he told me that he bought a car

O beni arabayi satin aldigi anlatmis

2-he know that i know

O bildigim bilir

lutfen beni yardim bu goru vaya yanlis

tesekkur ederim

Çok teşekkür edrim

its not easy  i will never learn