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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   'There is' and 'There isn't'   'There is...' - To say 'there is....', or to say that something exists we use the word 'var'. 'There isn't...' - To say 'there is....' or to say that something doesn't exist we use the word 'yok'.   examples araba var = there is a car odada bir masa var = there is a table in the room   kedi yok = there isn't a cat masada bir kitap yok = there isn't a book on the table     We can also use the words 'var' and 'yok' to show that we have something. We do this by adding the word after a possessive sentence.  The literal translation into English of this would be 'my ...... exists' or 'my ...... doesn't exist'.   examples kedi = cat kedim = my cat benim kedim var = i have a cat (my cat exists) senin evin var = you have a house onun araba yok = he doesn't have a car   Past To say 'there was.....' or 'there wasn't.....', we must use 'var' or 'yok' in the past tense by adding the past suffix '-di'. This will then change to vowel harmony to become; 'vard' and 'yoktu'   examples araba vard  = there was a car araba yoktu = there wasn't a car   Asking questions with 'var' and 'yok'   To ask a question, for example 'is there a car?', we must add the question marker. '.....var m?' = 'is there......?' '.......yok mu?' = 'isn't there.......?' examples is there a car? = araba var m? is there not a car? = araba yok mu? bahçede kedi var m? = is there a cat in the garden? senin kedin var m? = do you have a cat? onun kalem yok mu? = doesn't he have a pen? Test Yourself! Using the following vocabulary, translate the following sentences from Turkish to English.   ev - house kitap - book pencere - window para - money çanta - bag arkada - friend misafir - guest araba - car masa - table kedi - cat burada - here   example - senin paran var m? = do you have money? 1) burada misafir var - ___________________ 2) evimde iki pencere var - __________________ 3) senin çanta yok mu? - ___________________ 4) bir kitap yok - ___________________ 5) onun ev yok mu? - __________________ 6) benim misafir yoktu - _________________ 7) senin paran yoktu mu? - _________________ 8) benim yedi arkada m var - _____________________   Translate the following sentences from English to Turkish example - there isn't a guest in your house = evinde misafir yok 1) i have two cats - _________________ 2) do you have a car? - ___________________ 3) there was a book on the table - ___________________ 4) he didn't have a bag - ___________________ 5) i had a house - __________________ 6) is there not a window? - ___________________ 7) you haven't got a friend - _______________ 8) there is a car - ____________________   Answers 1) burada misafir var - There is a guest here 2) evimde iki pencere var - there are two windows in my house 3) senin çanta yok mu? - do you have a bag? 4) bir kitap yok - there isn't a book 5) onun evi yok mu? - doesn't he have a house? 6) benim misafir yoktu - i didn't have a guest 7) senin paran yoktu mu? - do you not have money? 8) benim yedi arkada m var - i have 7 friends   1) i have two cats - benim iki kedim var 2) do you have a car? - senin araban var m? 3) there was a book on the table - masada kitap vard 4) he didn't have a bag - onun çanta  yoktu 5) i had a house - benim evim vard 6) is there not a window? - pencere yok mu? 7) you haven't got a friend - senin arkada n yok 8) there is a car - araba var   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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