Greetings,

This story (and another one) is now added to our stories page:

http://www.turkishclass.com/story.php?id=6

Grammar is very easy. There are a few suffixes, the past tense suffix -di being the main one.
aldı > from "almak"
almak > dictionary form (infinitive)
al : verb stem (drop the infinitive suffixes -mek or -mak)
aldı: past tense suffix is attached.
aldım: personal suffix is added.

One or two case suffixes and plural suffix is also used. The story is designed to suit the complete beginners. I have a few more of these. Some feedback would be nice.

You can also some find simple question at the end of the story. Bye.

A very good idea. It is very usefull for begginers... as me. These are my answers :

1. Evet, Ayşe uyudu.
2. Evet, Ayşe rüya gördü.
3. Ayşe havada uçtu.
4. Havada çok bulut vardı.
5. Evet, el salladı.
6,7, Evet, Ayşe evler ve insanlar gördü.
8. Pilot uçakta vardı.
9. Pilot selam verdi.
10. Kuşlar Ayşe'ye "Merhaba" dedi.
11. Saat çaldı ve Ayşe uyandı.

Alicia,
thank you for your answer. You did very well.

Well done sophie.

Hi Bod,
in general its well done. There are just a few corrections.

1. correct
2. correct

"3. Ayşe havadayı uçtu." -no accusative here, -da is already locative suffix so it should be:
3. Ayşe havada uçtu.
Notice that the question matches the case of answer.
nerede-evde (in/at/on where?)
nereden-evden (from where?)
nereye-eve (to where)
nereyi-evi (what place?)

4. correct, vardı with ı

"5. Evet, Ayşe çocuklar el salladı." There is no need to add Ayşe here. You can add it only with dative case: Ayşe'ye (to/towards Ayşe). Here are two alternatives:
5. Evet.
5. Evet el salladılar.
5. Evet, çocuklar el salladı.
5. Evet, çocuklar el salladılar.
5. Evet, çocuklar Ayşe'ye el salladı.
5. Evet, çocuklar Ayşe'ye el salladılar.


6. correct
7. correct

"8. Ayşe uçakta vardı." Sorry bod. The verb here isn't varmak (to arrive). It is "var olmak" (to exist). Its noun form is var and this is used in the sentence.

Varmak (to arrive) and var (existing) are two different things.
Because the story focuses on simple past tense I have used the di suffix many times. Here is my translation for var:
var: exists, there is/are
yok: doesn't exist, there isn't/aren't
vardı: there was/were
yoktu: there wasn't/weren't
The correct answer should be one of these:
8. Pilot.
8. Pilot vardı.
8. Uçakta pilot vardı.

9. correct
10. correct
11. correct, çaldı and uyandı with ı

First I want to thank Erdinc for his job.I always was thinking to read short and simple stories in turkish, thinking that it is great help in learning any language.
I am sorry , I do not have turkish characters but I think you can understand.

1. Ayşe uyudu mu?
2. Ayşe rüya gördü mü?
3. Ayşe nerede uçtu?
4. Nerede çok bulut vardı?
5. Çocuklar el salladı mı?
6. Ayşe insanlar gördü mü?
7. Ayşe evler gördü mü?
8. Uçakta kim vardı?
9. Kim selam verdi?
10. Kuşlar Ayşe'ye ............ dedi
11. Saat çaldı ve Ayşe ............

1. Evet, Ayse uyudu.
2. Evet, Ayse ruya gordu.
3. Ayse havada uctu
4. Havada cok bulut vardi
5. Evet, cocuklar el salladi.
6. Evet, Ayse insanlar gordu.
7. Evet, Ayse evler gordu.
8. Ucakta pilot vardi.
9. Pilot selam verdi
10.Kuslar Ayse'ye "merhaba" dedi.
11.Saat caldi ve Ayse uyandi.

You did a perfect job bliss.

I'm sorry for putting the pages in such and unpractical format. It would be nice to have it in any other more suitable format than ms word. Hopefully somebody will help me on this issue as I have a few more stories but I feel uncomfortable showing them like this.

Dear Erdinc,

i hope that you will post those stories soon, even if their format is not a good one. This first one was a simple and nice exercise for us. And it's format hasn't stopped us from working it out.
I wish for more to come, soon.