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All about Turkish language with explanations
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26 May 2012 Sat 03:14 am |
Hello! Earlier today, my friend and I found a really helpful post, All about The Turkish Language; It was really helpful and easy for me! I guess It would also be easy and helpful to some learners too. Most of the things in this thread, are already in the lessons section. But I guess putting them ll together is easy, clear and better! I hope you like it.
Turkish is a language of the Ural-Altaic family. It´s quite logical, with few exceptional rules and no genders, but its agglutinative structure is so different from Indo-European languages that speakers of those languages may find its grammar a challenge to learn at first.
(Agglutinative means that words and sentences are made by adding suffixes to a root-word.)
Edited (5/26/2012) by tristerecuerdos
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26 May 2012 Sat 03:15 am |
Suffixes:
A Turkish word starts with a short root (such as git-, ´go´. One or more suffixes are added to modify the root (gitti, ´s/he went´. English uses only a few suffixes, such as -´s for possessive, -s or -es for plural, but Turkish has dozens of suffixes.You can make whole sentences in Turkish out of one little word root and a lot of suffixes.
NOUN SUFFIXES
Plural: -lar, -ler
Bankalar, banks
Oteller, hotels
To, Toward: -a, -e (or -ya, -ye)
Bankaya, to the bank
Otele, to the hotel
From: -dan, -den
Bankadan, from the bank
Otelden, from the hotel
Possessive: -ın, -in, -nın, or -nin
Bankanın, the bank´s
Otelin, the hotel´s
With: -lı, -li, -lu, -lü
Et, meat; etli, with meat
Süt, milk; sütlü, with milk
Without: -sız,-siz,-suz, -süz
Et, meat; etsiz, without meat, meatless
Süt, milk; sütsüz, without milk
You may see -ı, -i, -u or -ü, -sı, -si, -su or -sü added to any noun. An ev is a house; but the ev that Mehmet lives in is Mehmet´in evi.
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26 May 2012 Sat 03:16 am |
VERB SUFFIXES
Infinitive: -mak, -mek
Almak, to take or buy
Gitmek, to go
Simple present: -ar, -er, -ır, -ir, -ur, -ür
Alır, he/she/it takes or buys
Gider, he/she/it goes
Future: -acak, -ecek, -acağ-, -eceğ-
Alacak, he/she/it will take, buy
Gidecek, he/she/it will go
Simple past: -dı, -di, -du, -dü
Aldı, he/she/it took, bought
Gitti, he/she/it went
Continuous: -ıyor-, -iyor- (like English ´-ing´
Alıyor, he/she/it is taking, buying
Gidiyor, he/she/it is going
Question: -mı, -mi, -mu, -mü
Alıyor mu? Is he/she/it taking (it)?
Gidecek mi? Will he/she/it go?
First Person Singular (I):-ım, -im, -um, -üm
Alırım, I take
Second Person Singular (you-informal): -sın, -sin, -sun, -sün
Alırsın, You take
Third Person Singular (he/she/it): (no suffix)
Alır, he/she/it takes
First Person Plural (we): -ız, -iz, -uz,-üz
Alırız, we take
Second Person Plural (you-formal): -sınız, -siniz, -sunuz,-sünüz
Alırsınız, You (plural) take; or You (singular-formal) take
Third Person Plural (they): -lar, -ler
Alırlar, They take.
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26 May 2012 Sat 03:18 am |
WORD ORDER
Nouns and adjectives usually come first, followed by the verb. The subject of the sentence is often the final suffix (unless the sentence is a question):
İstanbul´a gidecegim, I´m going to Istanbul.
Halı almak istiyorum, I want to buy (take) a carpet (literally ´Carpet to buy want I´
THE FUN BEGINS
Now you can slap a lot of suffixes together and get Afyonkarahisarlılastıramadıklarımızdan mısınız? It´s actually a word, and also a complete sentence! But, it must be admitted, it was made up just to show off the agglutinative facility of Turkish.
What does it mean? "Are you from among that group of people whom we attempted to make to resemble the citizens of Afyonkarahisar, but were unable to do so?"
Yeah, right.
*alıntıdır/its taken from a web site
i hope it helps with your Turkish
And I am not a teacher! I´m just a learner, with respect to all the teachers and translators here. I just wanted to post this to help learners.
Thank you.
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26 May 2012 Sat 11:18 am |
Afyonkarahisar|lı|las|tır|a|ma|dık|ları|mız|dan mı|sınız
Sorry, I couldn´t stop myself doing that.
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26 May 2012 Sat 11:48 am |
Your headline promises the whole truth. This is only half of it. Or even less. Look.
First Person Singular (I):-ım, -im, -um, -üm or -m
Alırım, I take
al|dı|m ´I took´
Second Person Singular (you-informal): -sın, -sin, -sun, -sün or -n
Alırsın, You take
al|dı|n ´you took´
Third Person Singular (he/she/it): (no suffix) I agree
Alır, he/she/it takes
al|dı ´he took´
First Person Plural (we): -ız, -iz, -uz,-üz or -k
Alırız, we take
al|dı|k ´we took´
Second Person Plural (you-formal): -sınız, -siniz, -sunuz,-sünüz or simply -niz, -nız
Alırsınız, You (plural) take; or You (singular-formal) take
al|dı|nız ´you took´
Third Person Plural (they): -lar, -ler Ok
Alırlar, They take.
al|di|lar ´they took´
There is another set of personal endings used after past tense -di and the attached particle -se (if clause).
In addition, there are two more sets of personal endings for imperative and subjunctive. You are going to need them all. Don´t get discouraged, the system is quite simple. I just thought you should understand this from the beginning since I struggled with it for a long time.
I like your attitude btw.
Edited (5/26/2012) by Abla
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26 May 2012 Sat 07:09 pm |
Afyonkarahisar|lı|las|tır|a|ma|dık|ları|mız|dan mı|sınız
Sorry, I couldn´t stop myself doing that.
Its fine
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26 May 2012 Sat 07:11 pm |
There is another set of personal endings used after past tense -di and the attached particle -se (if clause).
In addition, there are two more sets of personal endings for imperative and subjunctive. You are going to need them all. Don´t get discouraged, the system is quite simple. I just thought you should understand this from the beginning since I struggled with it for a long time.
I like your attitude btw.
Thank you and I´m glad!
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