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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   Simple present negative tense   To make the simple present tense into a negative sentence, eg ‘i do not go’, add the following endings onto the verb; -mem - i don’t.... -mezsin - you don’t...(singular/familiar) -mez - he/she/it doesn’t... -meyiz - we don’t... -mezsiniz - you don’t...(plural/polite) -mezler - they don’t....   (change the vowels in the suffix according to vowel harmony, eg ‘-mam‘, '-mayz', 'mazlar')   examples ‘gelmem’ = ‘i don’t come’ ‘gitmezsin’ = ‘you don’t go’ ‘kalmaz’ = he doesn’t stay’ etc Asking questions in the negative simple present tense   To ask a question in this tense, add '-mez/maz' after the verb and then add the question marker with the personal ending.   examples gelmez miyim? - do i not come? kalmaz m sn? - do you (singular/familiar) not stay? gitmez mi? - does he not go? kalmaz m yz? - do we not stay? gelmez misiniz? - do you (plural/polite) not come? okumazlar m? - do they not read? * * (as always with questions, the third personal plural is different and the question marker is always at the end of the sentence, after the suffix) Test Yourself! Using the following vocabulary, translate the sentences below from English to Turkish.   oku - read gel - come git - go çal - work gör - see oyna - play bil - know   example - I don't know - bilmem 1) you (singular/familiar) don't play - _________________ 2) we don't go - __________________ 3) do you (plural/polite) not see? - _______________ 4) he doesn't know, do you not know? - _______________ 5) do they not read? - ________________ 6) does it not work? - ________________ 7) i don't work - __________________ 8) do you (singular/familiar) not come? - _________________   Translate the following sentences from Turkish to English example - gitmezler mi? - do they not go? 1) bilmezsin - ____________________ 2) çalmazlar - ____________________ 3) okumaz - ________________ 4) sen gitmezsiniz, ben gitmem - ______________ 5) görmeyiz, görmez misin? - ___________________ 6) oynamam - _________________ 7) bilmezler mi? - ______________ 8) gelmez miyim?- ________________   Answers 1) you (singular/familiar) don't play - oynamazsn 2) we don't go - gitmeyiz 3) do you (plural/polite) not see? - görmez misiniz? 4) he doesn't know, do you not know? - bilmez, bilmez misin? 5) do they not read? - okumazlar m? 6) does it not work? - çalmaz m? 7) i don't work - çalmam 8) do you (singular/familiar) not come? - gelmez misiniz?   1) bilmezsin - you don't know 2) çalmazlar - they don't work 3) okumaz - he doesn't read 4) sen gitmezsiniz, ben gitmem - you don't go, i don't go 5) görmeyiz, görmez misin? - they don't see, do you not see? 6) oynamam - i don't play 7) bilmezler mi? - do they not know? 8) gelmez miyim?- do i not come?     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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