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- Ip durmak
1.       tunci
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 25 Jan 2014 Sat 02:13 pm

 

- Ip durmak

 

Linking gerund  -Ip  and  "durmak " can be used to express continuity of an action.

 

 Verb stem Ip [ip,up,üp]    +      dur + tense ending +  person

 

Gül    +       üp                           dur  +  uyor

Gülüp  duruyor.  --->  He/She keeps laughing.

 

* There is an inference to being annoyed or complaining.

 

- Boş boş konuşup durma.  ---> Don´t keep talking rubbish.

                                             Don´t keep talking nonsense.

 

- Bana bakıp durma öyle !  ---> Don´t keep looking at me like that !

 

 

* it can also be used to state  good actions performed many times.

 

Bütün gün dua edip durduk. --> We kept praying all day.

 

Tüm gün sevgilisini düşünüp durdu ---> He/She kept thinking of his/her lover all day.

 

 

* This form can´t be negated on the -Ip part, it can only be negated on the second [dur] part.

 

 İstanbul´dayken seni arayıp durmadı, değil mi ? -->  He didn´t keep calling you while you were in Istanbul, did he  ?

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