erimek: melting and dissolving
Ice melts, and sugar dissolves: Turkish uses erimek for both. Learn eriyor, eridi and eriyecek with food and weather examples and explained practice.
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eritmek: making something melt or dissolve
Chocolate in a pot gives eritmek an object. Learn the double t in erittik, polite eritin and the difference between causing melting and simply melting.
Read and practiseısınmak: getting warm and warming up
A room gets warm, and athletes warm up: both can use ısınmak. Practise dotless ı, ısındık and the distinction from heating something with ısıtmak.
Read and practiseısıtmak: heating food and rooms
Soup, milk and a cold room need an object with ısıtmak. Practise ısıtıyorum, the double t in ısıttı and future plans without confusing them with ısınmak.
Read and practisesoğumak: cooling down and turning cold
Soup cools and the weather turns cold with soğumak. Practise soğuyor, soğudu and soğuyacak, and distinguish a temperature change from the adjective soğuk.
Read and practisesoğutmak: cooling drinks, food and rooms
Lemonade in the fridge and an open window show who or what cools something. Practise soğutmak, soğuttuk and the object pattern that differs from soğumak.
Read and practiseacıkmak: getting hungry and keeping the stem k
Getting hungry before lunch? Use acıkmak to describe the change, choose present, past and future forms, and keep its stem k in vowel endings.
Read and practisesusamak: thirst, tense and a misleading shared form
Thirst on a journey: learn susamak, recognise the vowel change in susuyorum, and distinguish susadım from the silence verb sustum.
Read and practisedoymak: having enough to eat
Enough soup or still hungry? Describe becoming full with doymak, politely decline more food and practise the negative future doymayacağız.
Read and practiseesnemek: yawning and stretching materials
A yawn or elastic stretching? Read the context of esnemek, form esniyorum correctly and distinguish bodily action from a material changing shape.
Read and practisehapşırmak: describing a sneeze
Sneezed twice or about to sneeze? Conjugate hapşırmak, keep the dotless ı in its stem and distinguish sneezing from coughing with clear examples.
Read and practiseöksürmek: coughing now, before and no longer
Coughing now or no longer coughing? Use öksürmek with time expressions and see why the negative past is öksürmedi, despite positive öksürdü.
Read and practiseterlemek: sweating and fogged glass
Sweat on a walk, mist on a mirror: use terlemek in both contexts and practise the vowel change between terliyorum, terledim and terleyeceğim.
Read and practiseüşümek: feeling cold in a place
Cold in a room or at a stop? Say how you feel with üşümek, name the place and practise present üşüyorum, past üşüdük and future üşüyeceksiniz.
Read and practisetitremek: trembling hands and vibrating objects
Hands trembling, a phone vibrating: choose the meaning of titremek from its subject and practise titriyor, titredim and titreyeceğiz in context.
Read and practisenefes almak: breathing as a two-word verb
A breath before speaking: learn nefes almak as two written words, conjugate only almak and distinguish breathing in from nefes vermek, breathing out.
Read and practisegiyinmek: getting dressed and dressing warmly
Getting ready before breakfast: use giyinmek for dressing, learn kalın and şık giyinmek, and distinguish the usual garment-specific verb giymek.
Read and practisesoyunmak: getting undressed and changing clothes
Changing clothes after exercise: use soyunmak for getting undressed, recognise soyunma odası and choose çıkarmak when naming one garment.
Read and practisetaramak: combing hair and scanning documents
Use taramak with hair and documents: learn tarıyorum, taradık and tarayacağım, choose the right tool and practise three tenses.
Read and practisetaranmak: combing your own hair
Talk about combing your own hair with taranmak, compare saçımı taramak and recognise the passive meaning when hair is the subject.
Read and practiseyıkanmak: washing yourself and things being washed
Describe washing yourself with yıkanmak and recognise its passive meaning with clothes and dishes; compare yıkadım and yıkandım in context.
Read and practisekurulanmak: drying yourself with a towel
Describe drying yourself after swimming or showering with kurulanmak; practise havluyla, the washing sequence and three tense forms.
Read and practisekurulamak: drying dishes, hands and surfaces
Use kurulamak to dry dishes, hands and wet surfaces; form kuruluyorum, kuruladık and kurulayacağım and contrast drying yourself.
Read and practiseuyandırmak: waking someone else up
Wake someone with uyandırmak: mark the person as beni, seni or babamı, contrast uyanmak and practise requests and three tense forms.
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