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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 2)   You should have already looked at the Vowel harmony 1 section and you will have seen how the vowels are split into 2 groups, each of which take different suffixes. However, there are other suffixes that instead of taking either 'e' or 'a', take either 'i, , ü, u', such as ...'-(i)yorum' (i am ....ing), '..dim' (i did...), and '-siz' (without). Therefore we need to split the suffixes into more groups in order to add the suffixes with the correct vowels. For example if the suffix is '-siz' (without) then the 'i' will change into:   If the last vowel is: 'e' or 'i' - stays as 'i' (-siz) 'a' or '' - changes to '' (-s z) 'ü' or 'ö - changes to 'ü' (-süz) 'u' or 'o' - changes to 'u' (-suz) This applies to a number of suffixes, such as the past suffix ('...dim'), the possessive suffix (-im, -sin etc) and the 'without' suffix (-siz), as well as many more.   Examples For now we will just use the '-siz' suffix, meaning 'without....'. sugar - eker without sugar - ekersiz milk - süt without milk - sütsüz ice - buz without ice - buzsuz money -para without money -parasz     Test yourself! Using this vocabulary, add the correct suffix depending of vowel harmony.   water - su chocolate - çikolata cream - krem salt - tuz potato - patates sauce - sos noise - ses dictionary - sözlük   example - wythout potato - patatessiz 1) without salt - tuz____________ 2) without sauce - _________________ 3) without dictionary - _______________ 4) without chocolate - _______________ 5) without water - _______________ 6) without noise - _________________ 7) without cream - ________________       Answers 1) without salt - tuzsuz 2) without sauce - sossuz 3) without dictionary - sözlüksüz 4) without chocolate - çikolatasz 5) without water - susuz 6) without noise - sessiz 7) without cream - kremsiz 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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