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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     'To Be' Negative   This tense is quite simple to make. Simply take an word, such as 'fine' or 'tired', and add the word 'deil'. This is not a suffix, but a word on its own. Then add the same personal endings that you would for the 'to be - positive tense'. examples 'iyi deilim' = 'i am not fine' 'mutlu deilsin' = 'you are not happy' 'yorgun deil' = 'he is not tired' 'Türk deiliz' = 'we are not Turkish' 'yorgun deilsiniz' = 'you are not tired' 'iyi deiller' = 'they are not fine' Past Tense   To turn this into the past tense, such as 'he was not happy', add the past suffix '-di' and then the personal ending, just like with the 'To be - positive' tense. examples 'iyi deildim' = 'i was not fine' 'mutlu deildin' = 'you were not happy' etc Asking Questions   To turn this tense into a question, follow this formula; word + deil + question + personal mutlu + deil + mi + sin = 'mutlu deil misin?' = 'are not happy?' 'mutlu deil miydin?' = 'were you not happy?'   'yorgun deil miyim?' = 'am i not tired?' 'yorgun deil miydin?'= 'were you not tired?'   'iyi deiller mi?' = 'are they not alright?' (For 'they', the question marker comes at the end).   Test Yourself! Using the following vocabulary, translate the sentences below from English to Turkish.   happy - mutlu fine - iyi ill - hasta angry - kzgn sad - üzgün tired - yorgun   example - I was not ill = hasta deilim 1) you (singular/familiar) are not tired - _______________ 2) we were not angry - _______________ 3) were we not happy? - _____________ 4) he is not fine - ______________ 5) are you (plural/polite) not sad? - __________________ 6) am i not happy? - ___________________ 7) were they not ill? - _________________ 8) i am not fine - ____________________   Translate the following sentences from Turkish to English. example - iyi deil = he is not fine 1) you (plural/polite) are not tired - ____________________ 2) is she not happy? - ____________________ 3) we were not sad - ___________________ 4) they are not angry - __________________ 5) was it not ill? - __________________ 6) are you (singular/familiar) not angry? - ________________ 7) we are not tired - ____________________ 8) they were not sad - ________________   Answers 1) you (singular/familiar) are not tired - yorgun deilsin 2) we were not angry - kzgn deildik 3) were we not happy? - mutlu deil miydik? 4) he is not fine - iyi deil 5) are you (plural/polite) not sad? - üzgün deil misiniz? 6) am i not happy? - mutlu deil miyim? 7) are they not ill? - hasta deiller mi? 8) i am not fine - iyi deilim   1) you (plural/polite) are not tired - yorgun deilsiniz 2) is she not happy? - mutlu deil mi? 3) we were not sad - üzgün deildik 4) they are not angry - kzgn deiller 5) was it not ill? - hasta deil miydi? 6) are you (singular/familiar) not angry? - kzgn deil misin? 7) we are not tired - yorgun deiliz 8) they were not sad - üzgün deildiler       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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