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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   Present Continuous Tense The present continuous tense in English would be 'I am.....ing'. To form this tense, you must add the present progressive suffix '-(i)yorum' to the verb and then add the appropriate ending depending on vowel harmony. There are 4 different endings that can be used;   if the last vowel in the verb is - e/i - the suffix will be - '-iyorum' a/y - the suffix will be - '-yorum' o/u - the suffix will be - '-uyorum' ö/ü - the suffix will be - '-üyorum'   If the last letter in the verb is already either 'i//u/ü', just add '-yorum'. If the last letter in the verb is either 'e/a/o/ö', change it to 'i/y/u/ü' depending on vowel harmony. For example; 'yemek' = 'to eat'. 'I am eating' = 'yiyorum'. 'okumak' = 'to read'. 'I am reading' = 'okuyorum'. personal suffixes for the present progressive tense -iyorum = i am ...ing -iyorsun = you are ...ing (singular/familiar) -iyor = he/she/it is ...ing -iyoruz = we are ...ing -iyorsunuz = you are ...ing (plural/polite) -iyorlar = they are ...ing   examples to come = gelmek i am coming = geliyorum you are coming = geliyorsun Using other words with their suffixes, we can now make sentences.   i am walking to my house = ev-im-e yürüyorum i am coming from the bank = banka-dan geliyorum you are staying at my house = ev-im-de kalyorsun what are you doing? - ne yapyorsun? where is he going? - nereye gidiyor? why are they coming? - niye geliyorlar? Negative present progressive tense To turn a verb into the present progressive tense, for example 'i am not going', simply add the negative suffix '-me/ma- after the verb. Then you must change it according to vowel harmony so that it becomes either -mi/m/mu/mü-, then add the appropriate ending.   examples gelmiyorum - i am not coming kalmyorsun - you are not staying düünmüyor - he/she/it is not thinking sormuyorlar - they are not asking etc   Asking questions in the present progressive tense To ask a question in this tense, for example 'are you coming?', the question marker '-mi- is placed after '-iyor' and before the personal suffix.   examples kalyyor muyum? - am i staying? geliyor musun? - are you coming? gidiyor mu? - is he/she/it going? ögreniyor muyum? - are we learning? yürüyor musunuz? - are you walking? düünüyorlar m? - are they thinking?   (for 'they', the question marker always comes at the end after the personal suffix).   Negative questions follow the same formula; kalmyor musun? - are you not staying? gelmiyor mu? - is he not coming? etc   Test Yourself! Using the following vocabulary, translate the following sentences from english to turkish;   to stay - kalmak to put - koymak to be - olmak to walk - yürümek to think - düünmek to jump - atlamak to take - almak   example - i am taking - alyorum 1) i am staying - kal____________ 2) you (singular/familiar) are putting - ______________ 3) they are thinking - __________________ 4) we are walking - ________________ 5) you (plural/polite) are jumping - ________________ 6) she is being - ____________________ 7) he is thinking - ___________________ 8) i am being - ____________________ 9) are you staying? - ____________________ 10) is he coming? - _________________ 11) are they thinking? - _________________ 12) you are not coming - ___________________ 13) i am not staying - _________________ 14) they are not taking - ________________ 15) is he not being? - ___________________   Translate these words from turkish to english example - atlyorsun - you are jumping 1) düünüyor - ________________ 2) yürüyorlar - __________________ 3) oluyorum - ________________ 4) kalyor - _________________ 5) koyuyoruz - ________________ 6) alyorsunuz - _____________ 7) yürüyorum - ________________ 8) kalyorsun - _________________ 9) kalmyor - ________________ 10) yürümüyorum - ________________ 11) koymuyorlar - __________________ 12) kalyor musunuz? - ____________________ 13) oluyor mu? - __________________ 14) gelmiyor muyum? - ___________ 15) düünmüyoruz - _________________   Answers 1) i am staying - kalyorum 2) you (singular/familiar) are putting - koyuyorsun 3) they are thinking - düünüyorlar 4) we are walking - yürüyoruz 5) you (plural/polite) are jumping - atlyorsunuz 6) she is being - oluyor 7) he is thinking - dü?ünüyor 8) i am being - oluyorum 9) are you staying? - kalyor musun? 10) is he coming? - geliyor mu? 11) are they thinking? - düünüyorlar my? 12) you are not coming - gelmiyorsun 13) i am not staying - kalmyorum 14) they are not taking - almyor 15) is he not being? - olmuyor mu?   1) düünüyor - he is thinking 2) yürüyorlar - they are walking 3) oluyorum - i am being 4) kalyor - he is staying 5) koyuyoruz - we are putting 6) alyorsunuz - you are taking 7) yürüyorum - i am walking 8) kalyorsun - you are staying 9) kalmyor - he is not staying 10) yürümüyorum - i am not walking 11) koymuyorlar - they are not putting 12) kalyor musunuz? - are you staying? 13) oluyor mu? - is he being? 14) gelmiyor muyum? - am i not coming? 15) düünmüyoruz - we are not thinking     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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