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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   Vowel Harmony (Part 1)   Vowel harmony is essential to learn in order to speak Turkish well, however at first it is quite hard to understand, so i will try to make this guide as simple to understand as possible! In Turkish there are 8 vowels. We can split these into 2 groups. These are: e, i, ö, ü (known as 'front' vowels) a, , o, u (known as 'back' vowels) It is essential to learn which vowels go into which group. To make this easier, think of them as the 'e dotted group' (which contains 'e' and the 3 vowels with dots), and the 'a undotted group' (which contains the 'a' and the 3 undotted groups). Many suffixes are also split into two, for example '-den/-dan' (from), '-de/-da' (in/on/at), and '-(y)e/-(y)a'(to). Vowel harmony insures that the correct suffix is used depending on what the last vowel in the word is. If the last letter is a 'front' vowel, then '-den', '-de', and '-(y)e' would be used. If the last letter is a 'back' vowel, then '-dan', '-da', and '-(y)a' would be used.   Examples ev (house) from the house (evden) in the house (evde) to the house (eve)   car (araba) from the car (arabadan) in the car (arabada) to the car (arabaya)     Test Yourself! Using this vocabulary, add the correct suffix to these nouns;   cat - kedi bath - banyo pen - kalem star - yldz eye - göz -den/dan - from -de/da - in/at/on   example - from the star - yldzdan 1) from the cat - kedi__________ 2) in the star - yldz_______ 3) in the bath - banyo______ 4) on the eye - _________________ 5) on the cat - ________________ 6) in the pen - ____________________ 7) from the bath - _________________ 8) from the eye- _____________       Answers 1) kediden 2) yldzda 3) banyoda 4) gözde 5) kedide 6) kalemde 7) banyodan 8) gözden   Click here to go to 'Vowel Harmony Part 2' 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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