is there a term in turksih for "Let's" or " Let us"??
e.g. Let's sing.

thanks canli you did it with explanations aswell

mmm i guess i understand!!
yatalim = let's go to bed???
am i right??

i think lets go to bed would be
yataga gidelim?

my pleasure deli to help if i can

Yes in fact there is > hadi

lol like in football

İ heard them said Hadi bastır
And in the song too

Haydi bastır galatasaray

My favorite team tho

ive changed my mind again
i think lets go to bed is
yataka girelim

Belmiyorum !

Maybe it can be right too

But as erdinc has posted earlier

İt is,, Hadi yadalım

But maybe it is doğru also

now im totally confused
i thought k chages to g if a vowel is in front of it

correct spellings are :
"yatağa"
"yatalım"

Hadi is an interjection. It is common to put it at the beginning of a sentence. When thinking again I realised that it might be closer to "come on" in English than it is to "let us".

Anyway. The optative tense for second person plural is very common as well as it was suggested above.

Example:
Verb form found:
git-mek

ben gid-e-y-im
Let me go
sen gid-e-sin
biz gid-e-lim
Let us go.
siz gid-e-siniz

"Hadi gidelim", "hadi konuşalım" or the other way "gidelim hadi ", "konuşalım hadi".

"Hadi plaja gidelim" is correct.

so the sentence come on lets go to bed
hadi yataga gidelim? :-S

The consonant mutation rule rarely applies to one syllable words. One syllable words are the ones that have one vowel. There are very few exceptions.

Anladım,Tşk Ederim

I found an old topic on this issue:

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_6_3143

hehe sorry to butt in..so if i wanted to say 'lets dance' would i say dansalım..i have a feeling thats wrong! please correct me

If there had been a verb like "dansmak" then it would be correct but there isn't.

In a dictionary when you are looking for a Turkish always look for a ending with -mak or -mek.

By double clicking on this word > dance < you can access our dictionary.

Çok Tşk Edrinc

Very helpful,as usual

Well,you got the right feeling
it is not right,,lol

it is dans etmek the eylem of dans'the verb'

So it should be Dans etelim ,

but i don't know if it take the (I) suffix or not,so it is either this or Dansı etelim

pls correct me

Hi Canlı,

This time it is the other way. The "et" in etmek follows consonant mutation even though it is one syllable. I haven't seen so far any source that mentiones more detail except that single syllables usually don't follow. It would be a nice topic for research.


Maybe there should be a list of these:
çok > çoğu
dans etmek > dans ediyorum
gitmek > gidiyorum

Have you tried winmekmak? It always get's the conjugations correct.
On number 21 on this page:
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_6_1448

"dans etmek" is a verb with two words. "Etmek" is an auxiliary verb that builds verbs out of nouns.

Example:
yardım etmek, şikayet etmek

We have around 15 auxiliary verbs.

Ohh erdinc,and i thought i finally got the consonant mutation right ,, lol

Ama anladım

İt is kind of exceptions,i hope there would be a way to get a list of all exception in Türkçe
there are not much ,but there are stil exist

Like eylem with Ir in Geniş Zaman almak-bilmek....

Like those words,although i don't understand the rule,except its easier in pronounciation

İsim - Şehir -oğlu -resim -karın -gönül...
when we add sufix with a vowel, we cancel the last vowel

İsmim - Şehrim - oğlum -.....and so

And now the exception of the consonant mutation with 1 syllable

each one of those exception are not much about 15 words,but is there a list for this kind of exceptions ?

Two days ago I made many additions to winmekmak's dictionary and I corrected many of the existing translations. The total of changes I made were around thousand and the majority was new entries. I hope soon, when the new version comes it will be more accurate on translations.

I helped to the author Per, voluntarily as this is such a nice tool and is available for free. A week ago Per and me talked about a program for nouns. Actually this was a long time plan by me and by chance Per said he/she had designed such a tool long time ago but didn't improve it much. We are considering this issue.

If you have any suggestions you can mention them:

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_6_5884


A list on exceptions would be great. I will take notes on this.

i've modified my post above,check it out

İs there something called LET YOU ??
İt is not valid in english too ,right ?

we don't say, let you eat
We either say,

Would you eat ... that would be like a suggestion
Or Eat, like an order
and that goes too on let they,let him,

So We use another form for it in English too,it is same here too Türkçe'de

Bod is right on this issue. We use the optative tense (which doesn't exist in English) to build sentences smillar like those sentences with "let's".

On reply #18 I had already mentioned the optative and had given these examples:

ben gid-e-y-im
Let me go
sen gid-e-sin
biz gid-e-lim
Let us go.
siz gid-e-siniz

Canlı,
Your sentence " hadi yatalım " is the optative tense of yatmak. "Yatalım" has the personal suffix of "biz". It is "yat" (verb stem) + a (optative tense suffix) + lım (second person plural suffix).

"ben yat-a-y-ım
sen yat-a-sın
biz yat-a-lım
siz yat-a-sınız"

smillarly is bod's example:

ben gid-e-y-im : Let me go
sen gid-e-sin : I hope you go.
biz gid-e-lim : Let us go.
siz gid-e-siniz : I hope you go.

My only objection to optative tense in winmekmak is that it doesn't have any forms for both third person. So there is not something such as:

o gid-e
onlar gid-e-ler

These two have been replaced with imperatives:

o git-sin
onlar git-sinler

Yes they have different type of personal suffixes. There are 4 types of personal suffixes.

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