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Navigation Home page Basic Turkish  Alphabet and Pronounciation Basic Information Grammer Vowel Harmony Vowel Harmony 2 Consonant Changes Suffixes Plurals Personal Pronouns Possession 'To Be' Positive Tense 'To Be' Negative Tense Present Continuous Tense Past Continuous Tense Simple Present Positive Tense Simple Present Negative Tense Simple Past Tense Future Tense 'There is' and 'There isn't' 'Let....' 'If.....' Apparently Necessity   'Let'   To say 'Let's....', two suffixes need to be added onto the verb base.   The first suffix is '-(y)e/a-' (the 'y' is only used if the last letter is a vowel) The second suffix is the personal ending.   I - '-yim' You (singular/familiar) - 'sin' He/She/It - '-sin' * (see below) We - '-lim' You (plural/polite) - '-siniz' They - '-sinler' or '-ler' **   * For he/she/it, there are two choices. Either; The first suffix '-(y)e/a' is used and no personal ending e.g gel-e  (let him go) or The first suffix is left out and just the personal ending is used e.g gel-sin (let him go) ** 'They' is similar; either gel-e-ler or gel-sinler is used.   Vowel harmony is once again used with this suffix.   examples Let me come - gel-e-yim Let me take - al-a-ym Let you come - gel-e-sin Let him come - gel-e or gel-sin Let's come- gel-e-lim Let you come - gel-siniz Let them come - gel-sinler or gel-e-ler   This suffix can be used for a number of meanings. The most common meaning is 'let's...' or 'let me....'. However it can also be used with questions to mean 'shall i....'. To make a question out of it, simply add the question marker -'mi' and change accordingly with vowel harmony. examples shall i come = gel-e-yim mi? shall we wait = bekle-ye-lim mi?   Test Yourself! Using the following words, translate the sentences below from English to Turkish.   wait = bekle come = gel stay = kal take = al go = git be = ol here = burada home = ev garden = bahçe to there - oraya hot = scak good - iyi   example - let me come there = oraya geleyim 1) let me stay here - __________________ 2) let him go home- ___________________ (don't forget the 'to' suffix!) 3) let's wait - _________________ 4) let's take - ________________ 4) shall i stay at home? - ______________ (don't forget the 'at' suffix!) 5) shall we go there? - ____________________ 6) let's stay in the garden - _____________________ 7) let it be hot - __________________ 8) shall we wait here? - _______________   Translate the following sentences from Turkish to English   example - burada kalalm = let's stay here 1) iyi olsun - ___________________ 2) eve gidelim mi? - _______________ 3) bahçede bekleyelim - _________________ 4) kala - ____________________ 5) alaym - _________________ 6) gitsin - _______________________ 7) orada gideyim mi? - _______________ 8) eve alalm m? - __________________   Answers 1) let me stay here - burada kalaym 2) let him go home- eve gitsin 3) let's wait - bekleyelim 4) let's take - alalm 4) shall i stay at home? - evde kalaym m? 5) shall we go there? - oraya gidelim mi? 6) let's stay in the garden - bahçede kalalm 7) let it be hot - scak olsun 8) shall we wait here? - burada bekleyelim mi?   1) iyi olsun - let it be good 2) eve gidelim mi? - shall i go home? 3) bahçede bekleyelim - let's wait in the garden 4) kala - let him stay 5) alaym - let me take 6) gitsin - let him go 7) orada gideyim mi? - shall i go there? 8) eve alalm m? - shall we take it home?         learn-turkish@hotmail.com   Useful Info Useful Words 1 Useful Words 2 (inc. Verbs) Useful Phrases Numbers Days, Months and Seasons Telling the time Other  About Me Forum Guestbook Links Search This Site E-Mail Me! Useful Verbs  gelmek - to come          gitmek - to go             kalmak - to stay                    yemek - to eat             sevmek - to love         yapmak - to do            olmak - to be      o?enmek - to learn           ö?retmek - to teach        uyumak - to sleep            istemek - to want                ya$amak - to live

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