Category Archives: Turkish Grammar

There is | There is NOT |I have | I don’t have

Ok todays lesson is a little different than the other grammar stuff. This one is easy but hard to understand for some people at first.
-VAR (There is | have)
-YOK (There is not | have not)
Lets try to say i have a car .
Car: araba
araba(m) var -I have a car :[You use […]

Turkish Grammar - How to form sentences in Turkish Language

I have a friend from Germany and he is trying to learn Turkish like you are. And sometimes when he tries to speak He spoke like Tarzan. Why? Because he has no idea about the line of words. So here is how you form sentences in Turkish language.
Subject + Complements+VERB.
Hint : VERB is always at […]

Turkish Grammar - Present Tense Question

To ask a question we use the suffix
-mi
The rule is
verb + (i)yor +(SPACE HERE)+ m(i)+possession
Exception in the 3rd plural person
verb + (i)yor+ l(e)r + (SPACE HERE)+m(i)+
In some places of Turkey the rule is Ok for 3rd plural person as well. Everybody can understand even you are strict about the rule in […]

Turkish Grammar - Present Tense Negative Form

To make a verb negative in Turkish we use the suffixes
-me
-ma
Gel : come / Gelme :Don’t come
Kal : stay / Kalma : Don’t stay
For present tense
The rule is
verb +m(e)+ yor + possession
The “e” in the -me changes acording to the
vowel harmony.
Gel : Come / Gelmek : To come
gel+m(i)+yor+um —> I am not coming
gel+m(i)+yor+sun […]

Turkish Grammar - Present Tense

It is simple to form present tense in Turkish.
The rule is
verb + (i)yor + possession
The “i” in the (i)yor changes acording to the
vowel harmony.
Gel : Come / Gelmek : To come
gel+(i)+yor+um —> I am coming
gel+(i)+yor+sun —> You are coming (Singular)
gel+(i)+yor —> He/She/It is coming.
gel+(i)+yor+uz —> We are coming
gel+(i)+yor+sunuz —> You are coming (Plural)
gel+(i)+yor+lar —> […]

Turkish Grammar - Vowel Harmony

In Turkish, suffixes are formed according to Turkish vowel harmony, rules whereby most vowel sounds in a word are made either in the front of the mouth or the back, but not both.
if the vowels in the root are formed in the back of the mouth (a, ı, o, u), as in banka (bank), you […]

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