Winmekmak is a free Turkish verb conjugation program.

If you are using this program please mention any errors you have seen or any suggestions that might help to improve it except missing verb translation.

As there will be some systematic work on updating the database of verb translations, you don't need to report any missing verb translation. For now, you can ignore all verbs that are translated as "to write" because of not being included in the database. The majority of them will be included in next version.

There is no need to mention missing translation but please do mention incorrect translations.

I will check the program myself but I might miss some details. The list of your suggestions will be send back to the developer of this program to be used for the next update. Of course, I will first confirm that your suggestion is a good one before I put it into the list.

Thanks to the developers Taner Nalbat and Per Brännström for providing a free and excellent program for Turkish learners and thanks to Per Brännström for keeping the program updated.

If you are not familiar with this program follow these steps:
1. Go to our big list of online sources which is also a sticky thread in this language forum:
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_6_6212

2. On number 21 you see winmekmak listed in this list. Click on the link.

3. The developer's website will open. On this page find the last version of this program and download it. Currently the last version is 0.17. On the website you see a link as "Download WinMekMak 0.17 here".
Click on this link and choose "save". Afterwards choose a destination in your computer (for instance your 'desktop')to save the program.
There is no installation and there is no zip file. When you donload the file, you download the program itself.

I use Winmekmak and the problem i find is if the verb is not in the system. It comes up as write all the time e.g.

1 Kalmak = to stay
2 kapmak = to close
3 kirmak = to break
4 öğrenmek = to learn
5 ölmek = to die

If you put these in they all come up as to write.I also believe there as been a previous thread on this subject.

christine,
Thank you for your message. You are right about these five verbs. The program translates as "to write" whenever a verb is not found in it's database. They need to be added to the database.

After your message I have realized that there is no need to suggest missing verb translations. The reason is that the current version (0.17) has too many missing entries.

As your example shows the program doesn't yet translate even some very basic verbs.

We can not cover them by manually trying verbs that we can think of. I will find a whole list of Turkish verbs (more than 1500 entries) and I will compare it to the program's database. So there will be a huge update (at least a few hundred entries) with the next version.

The next version will hopefully not miss a single common Turkish verb. I have edited my first post. Thank you.

Yes, of course I will. Bye.

Two suggestions for extra features (that I haven't covered elsewhere):

1.
A mobile version that will install on a PDA or similar running Windows Mobile. The application certainly looks simple enough that all it would need is way of making it available to ActiveSync. A mobile version wouldn't even need a database of word translations really - just the suffixes.

2.
I mostly use WinMekMak the opposite way to it is indended. In other words I see a Turkish word written down and know the verb stem but don't understand the suffixes. So I type in the verb stem and play around with tenses and mood modifiers until WinMekMak shows me the same thing as that which I have seen written down. It would be very nice if I could type in the whole word and WinMekMak shows me which suffixes have been added to a verb stem.

Do the authors of WinMekMak want any help?
If so I might perhaps to be able to offer some assistance as it is such a useful application.