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There are 5 fundamental tenses in Turkish. These are: Open mini chat

1. Present simple tense (Geni! zaman) New in Forums

Should ,means and others difficulties
2. Present continuous tense ("imdiki zaman) ulak: ... ... ya da ... olsalarda, herkesin yemek ... ...
... y...

3. Future tense (Gelecek zaman) as low as

Henry: Bence ´as low as´ = kadar az In your exam
as ...
4. Past tense with -di (-di'li geçmi! zaman) --> Regular past tense Ona göre
si++: Literally: x´e göre = as it looks to x, how it l
5. Past tense with -mi! (-mi!'li geçmi! zaman) --> Also called the story past tense to...
Turkish to English
Past tense with -di (-di'li geçmi! zaman) --> Regular past harp00n: Derya has a wifi ... i´m using it for e-m

tense 5 kilo fazlam var...

Abla: Thank you for your answers, AlphaF, gokuyu
ikicihan.
There is no suffix for the regular past tense. The only point is that you must use the past tense form
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of to be. Be careful about the harmony rules though, as always. The use of the past tense with -di is nifrtity: I will search for this lyrics more but I didn
it please help me ...
almost the same as the English past tense. turkish to english please
sam1: ...
To tell an action that took place in the past. Turkish to English
insallah: Selam Cnm, bizi hatirladin yine, cok sag
He came. --> Geldi. bir gundu ama hava sog...
sahip (olmak)?
To make a statement that was true in the past. Abla: sahip is an Arabic loanword which means ...
as any noun. As...
She was beautiful. --> Güzeldi. Please help me translate T-E
rubyraven7: Thanks Tunci! I really appreciate you
Please let me know if I...
seni annen mi giydirdi?
The same way regular past tense is applied to verbs, it can also be applied to nouns and adjectives Abla: ... by the way, do you have the Turkish loanw
in Swedish?
using the past tense form of to be. The meaning in this case is the same as the meaning of 'was' in colloquial in future tense
English. tunci: Colloquial in Present ... Tense ; [Note: this fo
informal and ...
He was good. --> #yiydi.
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I was successful. --> Ba!arılıydım.

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Regular past tense of a word is constructed this way:
word root + (negative) + past tense to be

Let's see how a verb is used in regular past tense on the following examples:
gel-di --> geldi --> he came
git-me-di --> gitmedi --> he did not go
oku-di --> okudu --> he read
kapat-dik --> kapattık --> we closed Add thumbnails like this to your site
ko!-din --> ko!tun --> you ran Most commented

ara-diniz --> aradınız --> you called (plural you)

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konu!-me-di --> konu!madı --> he did not talk
ver-me-dim --> vermedim --> I did not give
çalı!-ma-dik --> çalı!madık --> we did not work Profile of tunci

ye-diler --> yediler --> they ate

bekle-me-diler --> beklemediler --> they did not wait Profile of CHiZZY

Note that making the past tense of a verb and making the past tense of a noun or adjective is the
same, but only as long as they are positive. The negative suffix for verbs is -me, but negatives of
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nouns and adjectives are constructed using de!il. De"il is not a suffix, it is used as a seperate word.
Let's see a few examples to how nouns and adjectives are expressed in past tense.
She was beautiful. --> Güzeldi.
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She was not beautiful. --> Güzel de"ildi. (Note what we did is just to replace the suffix -me for verbs
with the word de!il in the case of nouns and adjectives. The ordering is still the same. Past tense of
to be, which followed -me for verbs, is now put after de!il) Ay!e
You were not kids. --> Çocuk de"ildiniz. Story by erdinc

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Let's see how these personal suffixes are used on some example verbs:
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English Turkish Level: beginner
to wait --> beklemek Lesson 4: Names of nations
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i waited (ben) bekle-dim --> bekledim
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you waited (sen) bekle-din --> bekledin Level: beginner
he \ (o) bekle-di --> bekledi
she | waited Antalya - Kaleici

it / Picture by slavica

we waited (biz) bekle-dik --> bekledik

Noun states

you waited (siz) bekledi-niz --> beklediniz

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they waited (onlar) bekle-diler --> beklediler Level: beginner

to work --> çalı!mak Turkish Class on Twitter

i worked (ben) çalı!-dim --> çalı!tım
you worked (sen) çalı!-din --> çalı!tın
he \ (o) çalı!-di --> çalı!tı
she | worked
it /

we worked (biz) çalı!-dik --> çalı!tık

you worked (siz) çalı!-diniz --> çalı!tınız

they worked (onlar) çalı!-diler --> çalı!tılar

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Comments (9)

clarividencia 7/28/2011 + -
içten te!ekkürler! Report
(+1)

smskt79 4/11/2011 + -
omlujain remember the harmonies. here we have a verb ending with hard Report
consonant !. when we have hard consonant then suffix -dim becomes - (+1)
tim. example : kitap-dan becomes kitaptan=from the book. hope i helped

omlujain 7/31/2010 + -
why the suffix in the verb çalı!mak turned from çalı!dim to çalı!tım ? Report
what is the base here? (+5)
please replay

holacaracola 5/17/2010 + -
the reading Emre´nin otomobili is a bit confusing since you can find two Report
past tenses we haven´t studied. I think it helps to know that the story
past tense with -mis and the past continuous (istemiyordu) are also
there.Sonra görüsürüz!

jawad 7/26/2009 + -
i have to study in turky to learn them perfect. Report
(+1)

jawad 7/26/2009 + -
i have to study in turky to learn them perfect. Report
(+1)

whodart 5/16/2009 + -
Would seem that if there are 36 tenses and they are used for writing, you Report
would need to know them for reading?? Whodart

damas17 4/1/2009 + -
Have you ever heard that in turkish there are 8 tenses : Report
- present - present continuous - future - past di - past mi! - necessity - (+2)
conditional - subjonctive.
But here´s the surprise : that´s for one mode (simple) and there are 6
modes :
simple - past - conditional - past conditional - inferential - past
inferential. But, there are only 36 tenses in total (some modes don´t have
some tenses) and most of them aren´t used, only for writing, although
there´re easy and depending on the harmony rules and suffixes. not
saying this to scare you, but... It´s good to know..

Toodles.

turkoid 12/22/2008 + -
hmmm...more studying is ahead of me Report
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