Afternoon all.... can anyone tell me where i can get a list of all suffixes used in the BASIC stages of the turkish language plus their meanings? Would be grateful of some help. Just starting out learning and am struggling a little with the suffixes. Thank you all

i also found and still find suffixes in turkish difficult..i do believe there is a section on this site in regards to suffixes.. ..otherwise onlineturkish.com is also helpful..although i cant recollect whether suffixes were mentioned there....

Here there is a suffix dictionary:

http://www.dnathan.com/language/turkish/tsd/index.htm

the meanings of what??if u could give an example maybe someone could help you better.. :-S
thanks for the link natyipuspi

they do explain..but not in much detail..when u click on them it says nominal/verbal and also gives examples of when they are used..this is helping me in determining the types anyway

you are welcome hun

If you want meaning of the basic ones, maybe you can see
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/moresuffixes.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_grammar

http://www.practicalturkish.com/difficulties-of-turkish--den-suffix.html

http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/details/LanguageGuide/TurkishGrammar.html

I found these sites. Maybe an advanced student or a native speaker, can help us.

she has found the link now..thanks for the link..it helped me neway

I read somewhere that Turkish has about 400 of suffixes. Turkish is exclusively suffixing language. I cannot locate any site with complete listing. But a good grammar book should list all of them.

I can give some info here.

There are two classes:
Inflection
Derivation

Those used for inflexion modifies a word in various way. The meaning of the word inflected doesn't change:
ev -- house
ev-e -- to the house (-e is dative case suffix)

Those used for derivation creates new words with new meaning related to the word derived from.
ev -- house
ev-len-mek -- to get married

Derivational suffixes can further be classified according to the type of word a suffix is attached and to the type of the derived word.
The verb and the noun are two distinct types. So we have 4 possibility
1- N -> N (Noun to noun)
ev -- house
ev-li -- wed (-li suffix)

2- N -> V (Noun to verb)
ev -- house
ev-len-mek -- to get married (-len- suffix)

3- V -> N (Verb to noun)
ev-len-me -- wedding (-me suffix)

4- V -> V (Verb to verb)
ev-len-dir-mek (causative of evlenmek, -dir- suffix)

So according to this classification, some similar suffixes are actually different suffixes.
For example:

kaz-mak -- to dig
kaz-ı -- excavation (V->N)
kaz-ı-mak -- to scrape (V->V)

döv-mek -- to beat
döv-üş -- fight (V->N)
döv-üş-mek -- to beat one another (V->V)

Be careful with this link :
www.dnathan.com/language/turkish/tsd/index.htm
I was told by a native turkish speaker that some of the suffixes and their explanation of usage are not correct (and he checked the page himself)
But generally speaking, it's very useful.
Dilara.

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hi everybody
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