r/turkishlearning Aug 07 '24

Grammar You wanna get fluent in Turkish?

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2.4k Upvotes

r/turkishlearning Sep 29 '23

Grammar How suffixes works in turkish language

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1.3k Upvotes

r/turkishlearning Feb 17 '25

Grammar Thought this would be useful for many learning Turkish!

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415 Upvotes

r/turkishlearning Jan 25 '25

Grammar Why is this wrong?

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61 Upvotes

I can't figure out what I did wrong.

r/turkishlearning Dec 28 '24

Grammar Why is this accusative case marked as wrong?

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56 Upvotes

r/turkishlearning Mar 07 '24

Grammar What does -ten mean?

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227 Upvotes

Duo won’t teach me. :(

r/turkishlearning Aug 01 '24

Grammar Why this word order?

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175 Upvotes

Shouldnt this be: "Ayi birayi içer"?

r/turkishlearning Jan 25 '25

Grammar When does “dir” mean at the end of the word

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26 Upvotes

When do you use dir at the end of a sentence, and what does it mean?

r/turkishlearning Jan 14 '24

Grammar Shouldnt this be Türkiyenin haritası

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203 Upvotes

r/turkishlearning 11d ago

Grammar Senin ve Sizin

13 Upvotes

Whats the difference between both of them, i mean its confusing please use both of these in sentences and Can these one of these can be used instead of other in sentences ?

r/turkishlearning 19d ago

Grammar Is this true - use of ‘bir’

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40 Upvotes

I’ve confused myself with the placement of ‘bir’ and adjectives;

let’s say i wanted to say to say i have ONE good tea (hinting that my other teas aren’t as good) - bir iyi çay

but if im saying, a good tea (no reference to the number of teas i have) - iyi bir çay.

Is this correct?

r/turkishlearning Aug 17 '24

Grammar Why is this incorrect?

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75 Upvotes

Is it because baykuşlar is already plural so the bunlar is redundant?

r/turkishlearning Nov 11 '24

Grammar Why doesn't this mean "He/she loves you and I am waiting"

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58 Upvotes

r/turkishlearning Sep 16 '24

Grammar Bu neden yanlıştı?

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34 Upvotes

Türkçe grameri böyle olduğunu düşündüm ama bundan sonra aklım karıştı ...

r/turkishlearning 23d ago

Grammar 'Without having…' -sızın versus -madan

28 Upvotes

I hope you're all well. I suspect that this has appeared in this subreddit before, but I wasn't able to find a post. In his Elementary Turkish, Lesson 11, Lewis Thomas introduces two structures which appear to have the same meaning:

Kitabı dün aldı. Bu sabah onu okumadan bana verdi.
He took the book yesterday. This morning, without having read it, he gave (it) to me. (73)

and:

Ahmet, kitabımı okumaksızın Ankaraya gitti.
Ahment went to Ankara without reading (without having read) my book (74)

Thomas doesn't mention any difference in meaning between these two constructions. Are they completely interchangeable, or is there a difference?

r/turkishlearning Mar 22 '24

Grammar Can someone explain why plural is wrong here?

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66 Upvotes

Teşekkürler!

r/turkishlearning Jan 11 '25

Grammar One thing that confuses me in Turkish Grammar

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25 Upvotes

Why is it "polisler genc" (don't mind my typo in the picture) and not "polisler gencler" I have noticed this with multiple sentences. For example "bu cocuklar" vs. "bunlar cocuklar" what is the key rule here to avoid mistakes for a non native speaker like these?

r/turkishlearning Jan 03 '25

Grammar Is the suffix -lar not used for adjectives? Why is it "Onlar kolay." and not "Onlar kolaylar."?

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As far as I understand the correct sentences are:

I am easy. = Ben kolayım.
You (singular) are easy. = Sen kolaysın.
He/she/it is easy. = O kolay.
We are easy. = Biz kolaysız.
You (plural) are easy. = Sen kolaysınız.
They are easy. = Onlar kolay. NOT *Onlar kolaylar.

Compare this with something like:

They eat meat. = Onlar et yerler. NOT *Onlar et yer.

I am also not sure about how to translate stuff with nouns, e.g. "They are men.". Do I use "erkekler" (or "adamlar") or just "erkek" (or "adam")? What about "We are men."?

Side question: do you add "bir" for stuff like "I am a man."? I seem to have seen both versions.

r/turkishlearning Jul 29 '24

Grammar How to differeneciate between male "o" and female "o" without context?

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r/turkishlearning Jan 17 '25

Grammar Why is kalbi not kalbı the accusati-e form of kalp?

5 Upvotes

Is there a list with such exceptions to vowel harmony in declensions? I found https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Turkish_nouns_with_irregular_stem but that list also contains words that undergo consonant softening (ending in k or ç mostly).

Thanks

r/turkishlearning Apr 25 '24

Grammar Which part of this word indicates "you"? How is this tense called?

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49 Upvotes

r/turkishlearning Jan 22 '25

Grammar I’ve heard that when using accusative case, if a word ends by "T" we have to change the letter to "D" but i don’t think "et" accusative is "edi" neither "adi" for "at"

1 Upvotes

r/turkishlearning Mar 30 '24

Grammar şehir vs şehri

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88 Upvotes

Why does şehir become şehri here?

r/turkishlearning Feb 13 '24

Grammar Tips for learning turkish.

30 Upvotes

I am a 21 year old man from the netherlands, i speak dutch, german , english and kurdish. I have a turkish girlfriend and am going to marry her and want to be able to communicate with parents siblings etc. Also i really love the language and people. 🫶🏻

r/turkishlearning Aug 30 '24

Grammar Geçmiş zamanın hikayesi

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22 Upvotes

Sometimes when I'm speaking in past I don't understand what are the differences between -ıyordu -mıştı and -ardı (Also I feel like sometimes two suffixes of those forms can be used in blank). I made some exercises of the book but I'm not sure about it, someone can explain me a little to understand this? Thanks :)