i was trying to make a verd to make it from like say..."swim" and make it into "to swim" but i dont know when to use the suffix -mek or -mak?

so if you can post me an answer that would be very good

teşekkurler!!!!

swim fast,to swim is nice sport<<<<< i think tis simple sentences can give you some clues

-mek -mak suffix makes name of a verb

To swim = yüzmek

Evet,and also can be yüzme

depends on how you want to use it

herkes,değil mi ?

even yüzme can use as a oreder mood

oppss,i didn't see it,or else i wouldn't have posted it,,lol
sry MrX

yepieee

Well,bir şey yapmıyorum,,lol

Because i was there not long time ago,,lol

My advice is to read more,even if you don't understand,and listen to songs,and mean while try to read the lyrics

İ do so,and it help me very much even to get used to the language and the pronounciation

And btw,it should be Şimdi yapıyor musun ?

As for istemek

We put the mastar before it, like this

Türkçe öğrenmek istiyorum

Şimdi bir burger yemek istiyorum ,ama Colayla çok güzel,,lol

yummy,,lol

i thank you 4 helping but i am still confused i have a list of verbs that have no suffix and i want to add them but i dont know which one to use can i pick either or is there certin times when you would use one over the other thnkx 4 the help PM me so i can get the info from a bunch of ppl and decide for my self but if not i'll chek this regularly

well,more explanation would be great really,

For me to understand, now you want to convert verbs to nouns ?

nono hers the link and i wan to make theres in to verbs with the mek and mak suffises bu ti dont know which one to use on each one

http://www.learningturkish.org/

go to this page and scroll down to # 42 "verb list" ok then you can see what im talking about ok

ohhh,i see, ok now that is very easy

You just add mak ,mek to the verb stem,accourding to the vowel harmoney rule ,that is all

İ guess you know it,right ?

actually...no i stsarted learning turkish bearly a week tomorrow

ohh i see
well, it is the most important thing in turkish to understand the vowel harmoney,the whole language depends on it
So i suggest that you look it up here on the site
on the left side under Learn Turkish,then grammar, you will find it there

Read it,and try to understand it well first,then start to learn anything else
When you understand it well, you will find no problem in Tükçe at all,
welll,,, i am still hoping so,,lol

And if you have any question,pls don't hesitate to ask

Ohh,and note that,we change the vowel in the suffix accourding to the last vowel in the word,always the last vowel,even if the word contain more than 1 vowel,and this rule goes for verbs and nouns,adjectives, anything

thank you that was a big help i guess i should learn thatn b4 anything else huh thnx...

yw ,and thx for the site,i haven't seen it before,looks useful,and simple too

there is a tool would be some help to you,but a bit later,when you want to form the verbs and the tenses

so here is the link,i will search for the Forum about it here on the site and post it to you later

http://www.ipb.nu/winmekmak/

Best wishes to you,and gl

PM me anytime you need

Sure,as much as i can

First of all,and first rule you must know it that verbs come last thing in the sentence like

Şimdi Türk yemeği yapıyorum
Means now i make Türk food
you can see that the verb in the end of the sentence

and when we want to make a question
it is mainly same with all tenses except for some exceptions

So here in this sentnce we put verb stem first +yor then mI+kişi eki ?

Şimdi yapıyor musun ?

if we want to make it nagative
we put the nagative suffix right after the verb stem

Şimdi yapmıyor muyum ?

So at Şimdiki zaman

Olumu,,,eylem+(I) yor + kisi eki

olumsuz,,eylem +mI( nagative suffix) + yor + kişi eki

olumlu soru eylem +(I)yor mI+(y)+kişi eki?
olumzuz soru eylem+mI +(I)yor mI+(y)+kişi eki?

and mostly with other tenses too except Belirli Geçmiş zaman

We put mI in the question at the end,and the kişi eki is connected to the verb
Like this

anladın mı ?

You understood ?

don't hesitate to ask if there anything you don't understand

but the most important thing to put in mind is,
Always,always the verb is in the end

İn this sentence it is the same

Türkçe öğrenmek istiyorum

the verb is istiyorum, öğrenmek here is mastar

And always with istemek we put what ever we want to do in the mastar (Mak-mek) or (me-ma)

like when we say in english

i like dancing,
we didn't say dance,we made a noun out of the verb

it is same case with istemek ,öğrenmek here means learning

İ hope i manage to make you understand what i mean,if you have a question,please ask

no worries ladies,still many native Turkish talker students get very low marks on Turkish grammers exams

do people learn grammar on streets?

you mean learn or use ?

They learn Grammar just after they got born
And use it in daily life too

Türkler,use only 1 languge,teach it to their kids too,along with the grammars

That's why in a survey,Türk kids are the first kids who learn their native languge very well,along with the grammar

being native Turkish and knowing grammar is not the same
in theory yeah we learn grammar and so... but its not so
plus with the internet language... with shortcuts... we forget what we learnt too

my advice then, try to remember all what you've learnt,its not easy to study Türk dilbilgisi
Even ask all the TC friends here,,lol