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.

Sorry bod for being a pain.
Page six: "uyandı" and not unandı

I will change the link on opening post.

Great idea Erdinc. Congratulation on this one but...would it be possible for you to come up with something a bit more advanced? I guess we have quite a number of people here who'd really appreciate it.

Hello Daydreamer,
I have 3 more of these kind stories and they are all relatively easy considering your level. We would like to simplify some books from Turkish Literature but it is and time consuming a difficult job, yet we are working on it.

As an alternative, have a look on these kid's stories. There are about 30 of them:

http://www.memocal.com/CocukMasallari.asp

Thank you. I had a quick look at them and I'm sure that when I finally have some time I'll read them. Children stories are good because of the language used but the narrative itself isn't very interesting (at least for people at my age) so I am looking forward to seeing the abridged versions of Turkish literature you mentioned. Meanwhile I am struggling to read short stories by Ahmet Umit, Omer Ayhan, Hakan Gunday and many others I got as a freebie buying Turkish Cosmo. Here the situation is reverse I love the plot but I get stuck too often to really enjoy them.

I thought this was a brilliant exercise and have learnt a lot from it - thank you Erdinc -
Made me sort out my Turkish language keyboard too !


1. Evet, Ayşe uyudu
2. Evet, Ayşe rüya gördu
3. Ayşe havada uçtu
4. Havada çok bulut var
5. Evet, Ayşe çocuklar el salladı
6. Evet, Ayşe insanlar gördü
7. Evet, Ayşe evler gördü
8. Uçakta pılot var
9. Ayşe pılot selam verdı
10. Kuşlar Ayşe ye "Merhaba" dedı
11. Saat çaldı ve Ayşe uyandı

I was reading through some of the comments/answers and I am confused by one of the explanations Erdınc has given (to Bod)on no 5.

In the story the words read "Çocuklar el salladı" - she waved at the children but Erdinc you give a possible answer as "Evet, çocuklar el salladılar". Doesn't the plural indicate that it is the children waving at Ayşe ?
I am I doıng somethıng badly wrong here ?

U Star !
Am loading it now - thank you.

Hi sammyscuba,
there are tiny mistakes on two answers.

Erdinc
Thank you very much for your time and comments.
I don't think you should change the text as it has highlighted a grammatical point I wouldn't have learnt otherwise.

Note to self......
I must write the last two pages for Ayşe!

Great practice for beginners...also loved the illustrations! Is there a way I can see the answers to the study questions, without downloading anything?

You post your questions in the related forums. In the starting post I have warned readers not to read other people's answers so it is alright to post your answers here.
My other stories look too silly to me right now. I need to reconsider them.

1. evet ayşe uyudu
2. evet ayşe rüya gördü
3. ayşe havada uçtu
4. havada çok bulutlu var
5. evet çocuklar el salladi
6. insanlar ve evler gördü
7. ayni 6
8. uçakta pilot var
9. pilot selam vardi
10. kuşlar ayşe merhaba dedi
11. saat çaldi ve ayşe uyandi

this is useful as i find reading çok zor

Hi fish,
You did very well on this. Congratulations.

Number 6 and 7 have a question suffixes which means they are yes/no questions. In English we build these kind questions by using 'am', 'is', 'are' at the beginning. These kind questions are asking for approval or rejection rather than information. Therefore for both 6 and 7 the answer could be "evet, gördü" (yes, she saw) or if you prefer the full versions "Evet, Ayşe insanlar gördü" and "Evet, Ayşe evler gördü."

In this story I have used some simple suffixes such as -da and -lar. Readers will recognise them better when doing some dictionary work with the vocabulary section at the end of the story.

Please feel free to ask any questions about the simple grammar used in this story. Regards,
Erdinç

ooh i just realised i haven't tried this yet

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

Oceanmavi,
They are all correct. Well done.

Well done Heart. There are tiny mistakes.


4. Havada çok bulut verdi
> Should be 'vardı' instead 'verdi'.

5. Evet çocuklar el salladi
> Salladı is with ı.

8. Pilot uçakta vardi
> "Uçakta pilot vardı." is the correct word order.

11. Saat çaldi ve Ayşe uyandi
> Saat çaldı ve Ayşe uyandı.

Here is a small hint on Past Tense Suffix -di:
When picking a past tense suffix (there are four versions) we choose it according the last vowel before the -di. This is called vowel harmony. If the last vowel is a or ı we use -dı. Here is the whole list:

a,ı > -dı
e,i > -di
o,u > -du
ö,ü > -dü

Example:
To wake up: uyanmak

Now we drop the infinitive suffix -mak and we have the verb stem which is 'uyan'. Now we can add the past tense suffix. Last vowel in 'uyan' is a. According our list a or ı takes -dı so we say uyandı.

The same applies for question suffix:

a,ı > -mı
e,i > -mi
o,u > -mu
ö,ü > -mü

We say "gördü mü?" because the ü in gördü takes -mü but we say "el salladı mı?" because the ı in salladı takes -mı.

below is my test answer... maybe totaly wrong
1. Ayşe uyudu mu?
evet. ayse uydun.

2. Ayşe rüya gördü mü?
hayir ayse ruya gormedun.
3. Ayşe nerede uçtu?
uctu ? anlamadim nedemek?

4. Nerede çok bulut vardı?
gokyuzude cok bulut vardi.
5. Çocuklar el salladı mı?
evet cocuklar el salladi.

6. Ayşe insanlar gördü mü?
hayir .ayse insanlar gormedun.
7. Ayşe evler gördü mü?
hayir. ayse evler gormedun.

8. Uçakta kim vardı?
ucakta cok turist ve vardi.


9. Kim selam verdi?
turist selam verdi.


10. Kuşlar Ayşe'ye ............ dedi.
??
11. Saat çaldı ve Ayşe
??

Greetings,
This story and another one is now added to our
Stories page. Bye.

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


. Ayşe, otomobiller gördü mü?
Hayır,Ayşe otomobiller görmedü

. Ayşe neden uyandı?
Çünkü,Ayşe ses duydu,saat çaldı <<< can i say it like this ?
or should i put 'ses' at the (I) case,'causative' ??
Or (I) doesn't work with Belirli Geçmiş zaman ?? :-S

Çok Tşk

Merhaba Canlı,
number 3 and 8 are almost correct but the sentences have a different order of words.

3. Ayşe nerede uçtu?
Ayşe havada uçtu
8. Uçakta kim vardı?
Uçakta Pilot vardı

"Çünkü,Ayşe bir ses duydu. " is correct.

When you open the this page and go to the exercise page which is the last page, you will find the correct answers to the questions as well.
http://www.turkishclass.com/story.php?id=6

When you click this >> (...) << next to the question the answer will appear and when you click again it will close.