Hi all turkish freinds

I want to ask you a favour if any of you could help and interested to send a small test for the beginners in order to know whether we understood what we learnt or not.

for example I already finished the first stage of the beginners but I still don´t know whether I can make a correct sentence or not.

thanks to all of you in advance  

sanırım, its a great idea!

evet, çook iyi fikir

A small quize for you ;

1.Aşağıdaki sözcüklerden hangisi bileşik sözcük değildir?

[ which word below is not a compound word ?]

A) açıkgöz         B) Denizli         C) Kızılırmak        D) dershane

2. Aşağıdaki sözcüklerden hangisi büyük ünlü uyumuna uymaz?

[ which word below breaches the major vowel harmony ?]

A) uzak         B) insanlar    C) sabah       D) yorgun

3. Aşağıdaki kelimelerin hangisi sert sessizlerin yumuşamasına örnek olarak gösterilemez ?

[ which word below there is NO consonant softening ?]

 A. Kumaşını          B. Kitabını               C. Toprağı             D. Kanadını

4. "... yaşamak için birçok......katlandı." cümlesini hangi sözcükler anlamlı tamamlar?

[Which words below fill the blanks with ?]

A. bağımsız – sebep      B. hür – zorluğa        C. egemen - bağımsız    D.tek - çare

5. 4.  "Gökhan okuldan sonra eve geldi." cümlesinde hangi hâl ekleri vardır?

[ Pick the noun cases that was used in the sentence above ]

A. -den, -e                B. -den, -i        C.  -e, -de                D. -den, -de

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Answers tomorrow ..

Is that easy enough ?

SENTENCE  TEST

Make meaningful sentences with randomly given words by adding necessary suffixes onto words.

1. akşam, lazım, sula , onlar , bu, agaçlar

2. sür, sabah, bisiklet , her, dedi

3.tatil , para, İstanbul, biriktir, bu, git, yaz

4. gözler, kontrol, hastane, dün, göz doktoru

5. gece, uyuma , hiç, duydum, sen, ki, dün

answer for 5.4 is A

1. c

2. b

3. a or d

4. a

Translation Quiz 

Translate the following sentences into Turkish

1. I came to see you today.

2. You need to learn Turkish.

3. We can´t play piano.

4. They will get tickets for the concert.

5. I should study Turkish more.

1. I came to see you today.    Bugün seni görmeye geldim 

2. You need to learn Turkish. Türkçe öğrenmen gerek

3. We can´t play piano. Piyano çalamayız 

4. They will get tickets for the concert. Konser için onlar biletleri alacaklar

5. I should study Turkish more. Daha çok Türkçe öğrenmem lazım

Cool answers Lana ! You got 100 out of 100 !!

Güzel yanıtlar ! 100 üzerinden 100 !!

Tunci, thanks a lot for your help always expected from you

although it´s not that easy yet for me but I´ll try my best

1- C

2- B

3- A

4- this I´m not sure as I used the dictionary it´s either A or D

5- A

Ok. I couldnt wait till tomorrow, time is over. the correct answers for this test is as follows ;

1.B 

2.B 

3.A 

4.B

5.A

Daha çok Türkçe öğrenmem lazım

Good try Bambib.

In question 1, "Denizli" is a name of the city that is made of One word "Deniz" and suffix "li" is attached to it. Therefore it can not be compound word.

In question 4,   ".Hür.. yaşamak için birçok..zorluğa....katlandı."

                     In order  to  live  free  he endured  many  difficulties.

 Hi Tunci, they took me all night to be able to make the sentences that was difficult for a beginner

I don´t know whether they will be correct or not but I´m glad I´m trying

1- Bu akşam onlar agaçları sulamaların lazım "they have to water the trees this evening"

2- "Her sabah bisikletle sürüş" dedi - "he said each morning he drives the bicycle"

3- para biriktiriyorum bu yaz tatilde Istanbul´a gitmek "I´m saving money to go to Istanbul on vacation this summer"

4-dün göz doktoru hastanede gözlerim kontroldu "or Kontrolmiş" "the eye doctor checked my eyes yesterday at the hospital"

5- dün gece sen hiç uyumamışsın ki duydum "I heard you never slept last night"

Very good Bambim..!! Little corrections i made but generally you done good !

why can´t I see the rest of the msgs??!! i only can see till the 9th msg and after that I can´t!!!!! what´s wrong??

Try Mozilla firefox browser Bambib instead of Internet explorer, it happens to me too.

thanks it worked now

Çok tesekurler

if you don´t mind I need to ask you for some explanations for the corrections you made :

1- onların now is the meaning changed to be "their trees must be watered this evening?" as "ın" stands for " ´s "?

2- sürerim[sürüyorum]" I tried first sürüyorum but everytime I search for it I couldn´t find it in the dictionary so why it is written as sürerim?

3-Bu yaz tatil e Istanbul´a gitmek için para biriktiriyorum. is the e of tatil here can also means on?

4- gözlerimi kontrol etti.why did you add the i and  what is the rule for etti as I couldn´t find it.

again thank you very much for your help that´s so nice of you and for the rest of the translation I´ll try to do it today and will post them tomorrow in order to check them hoca

In fact to prevent confusion

1. we can put comma after "onların"

Bu akşam onların, ağaçları sulamaları lazım.

2. Or we can put "onların" before "bu akşam"

Onların , bu akşam ağaçları sulamaları lazım.

Actually  it is , Onların sulamaları --> Their watering 

                     Onların ağaçları sulamaları ---> Their watering the trees

                     lazım = it is needed, necessary

Therefore the literal meaning of the sentence is

Onların ağaçları sulamaları lazım ---> Their watering the trees is necessary.

In other words ; They need to water the trees tonight.

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Another example ;

Benim [bu] çayı içmem lazım.  ---> I need to drink this [the] tea.

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Sürmek = to drive, to ride [bike]

The stem is "Sür" 

Sür + er [Simple Present tense marking, Aorist Tense] + im [personal suffix] ---> I do ride [drive]

The simple present tense in our sentence tells us about the actions that we do habitually.

Verb stem + er,ar,ir,ır,ur,ür + Personal marking

Her sabah kahve içerim. ---> I drink coffee every morning.

"sürüyorum" is acceptable too.

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Tatile --> Literally , to a holiday however it can be translated as " on " in English , as you said.

Tatile gitmek --> to go on holiday

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gözlerimi kontrol etti ---> He checked my eyes

"i"  is accusative case marking as the verb "kontrol etmek " requires accusative marking.

kontrol etmek  is a compound verb that is formed with auxillary verb "etmek"

kontrol etmek = literally "to make check" = to check

"etmek" literal meaning is  "to do "

the auxillary verb "etmek" is quite common in Turkish , such as ;

Teşekkür  etmek = to make thank = to thank

so the stem of "kontrol etmek " is  "kontrol et " and add the past tense marking onto it ;

kontrol  et + ti [ "d" changes into "t"]  ---> He checked

Hi Tunci,

may be I´m too late but here are my answers at last I wish they will be correct

1- Sen görmek bugün geldim

2- Turkçe öğrenmen gerekiyor

3- Biz piyano çalmayız  (yapabilmek) "I don´t know if yapabilmek should be added or not"

4- Konser için biletler onlar elde etecekler

5- Daha Turkçe öğrenmem lazım

Better late than never Bambib. [geç olsun güç olmasın]

thanks, i just wanted to ask a question, why do we add the suffix "i" for Sen, I know it´s a late question but for me Sen means you so why do we have to add the suffix and also what are the cases that we should and shouldn´t add it?

It is an accusative marking Bambib.

The Object Condition -i/-ı/-u/-ü, -yi/-yı/-yu/-yü, -ni/-nı/-nu/-nü

When the noun is an object of a verb Turkish does use an objective (accusative) suffix the. The subject definite article the does not, as a word, exist in Turkish but it does exist as a suffix to specify the object of a verb. In English we make both the subject and object of a sentence substantive by the use of the same definite article the. An example: Adam kapıyı (kapı-yı) kapattı - The man closed the door. Because the subject is already understood as substantive in Turkish it does not need a definite article. There is no The man as the subject definite article the is already understood in context. However there is an object definite article the in Turkish which appears as the suffix -(y)i, according to vowel harmony:

Formation of the Objective
The object specifier has the form of a suffix (governed by vowel harmony):
-i/-ı/-u/-ü is used with root nouns which end in a consonant or used with extended [already suffixed] nouns which end in a consonant
-yi/-yı/-yu/-yü [buffer letter -y] is only used with root nouns which end in a vowel.
-ni/-nı/-nu/-nü [buffer letter -n] is only used with extended [already suffixed] nouns ending in a vowel.

The Direct Object Pointer suffix -i, -ı, -u, -ü is suffixed directly to all root words which end in a consonant:
ev - house, the house - evi [ev-i] - the house (obj.)
sokak - street, the street - sokağı [sokağ-ı] - the street (obj.) - [sokak shows -k to -ğ consonant mutation here]
gül - rose, the rose - gülü [gül-ü] - the rose (obj.)

It takes buffer letter -y to become -yi, -yı, -yu, -yü - when added to a root word which ends in a vowel:
kedi - cat, the cat - kediyi [kedi-yi] - the cat - as an object of a verb
banka - bank, the bank - bankayı [banka-yı] - the bank (obj.)
kutu - box, the box - kutuyu [kutu-yu] - the box (obj.)
The buffer letter -y- is only used with simple nouns ending in a vowel which have not already been suffixed.

It is also suffixed to extended (already suffixed) nouns which end in a consonant:
evim - my house - evimi [ev-im-i] - my house (obj.)
sokağın - your street - sokağını [sokağ-ın-ı] - your street (obj.)
güller - roses - gülleri [gül-ler-i]- the roses (obj.)

But it takes buffer letter -n- to become -ni, -nı, -nu, -nü when added as a second suffix to an already extended noun.
kedisi - his/her cat - kedisini [kedisi-n-i] - his/her cat - as an object
bankası - his/her bank - bankasını [bankasını] - his/her bank - an object.
This shift of buffer letter - y to n - enables the listener to discern that the word is already agglutinated (extended) by previous suffixes. To reiterate: The buffer letter -n- is only used on already extended (suffixed) nouns.