Becoming: -leş / -laş
A garden grows prettier; a task gets harder. Build Turkish verbs of change with two suffix shapes, keep the base intact, and add infinitive or tense endings.
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Turkish suffixes
See how endings build Turkish words: plural, cases, possession, tense and questions, with a table of every shape.
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Turkish suffixes
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Diminutive: smallness and affection
A booklet, a tiny table, a dear mum: choose the Turkish diminutive ending, spot stem changes, and add plural or case endings in the right order.
Read and practiseThird-person imperative endings
A cooling soup and an open door show how Turkish expresses “let it happen”. Build all four third-person endings, their plurals and their negative forms.
Read and practise-ecek / -acak: future participles
Tomorrow’s reading takes shape in okuyacağım makale: attach the Turkish future participle, add the subject ending, and keep track of y and ğ.
Read and practise-(y)ış / -(y)iş / -(y)uş / -(y)üş: action nouns
A glance, a return, a way of reading: build Turkish nouns with -(y)ış, choose all eight shapes, and add plural or possessive endings.
Read and practiseDoer and quality: -ici
Readers, printers and constructive ideas share a Turkish suffix. Choose its vowel forms, add linking y where needed, and distinguish it from occupation endings.
Read and practise-er / -ar: equal shares
Two towels per guest, six candles per box: choose Turkish -er, -ar, -şer or -şar, spell dörder correctly, and describe groups with ikişerli.
Read and practise-dığı için: because someone does or did something
A postponed picnic has a reason: build Turkish -dığı için clauses, choose the subject ending, and keep a cause distinct from a purpose.
Read and practiseFamily and household suffixes
One person’s name can stand for a whole household. Build Turkish family forms, add case endings, and see why these words have no apostrophe.
Read and practiseThe whenever/as suffix
Each glance, each reading, each change: choose among eight Turkish suffix forms for recurring events and gradual change, then attach them to longer verb stems.
Read and practiseAs soon as: paired aorist forms
One event triggers the next immediately: build Turkish “as soon as” pairs, preserve stem changes, and keep person endings on the main verb.
Read and practise-a -a / -e -e: repeated action
Reading a passage again and again? Build Turkish repeated converbs with -a, -e, -ya and -ye, and distinguish sustained manner from progress through repetition.
Read and practise-seydi / -saydı: unreal conditions and regrets
A call never made: build arasaydım and getirseydik, compare both vowel patterns, and separate an unreal condition from its imagined result.
Read and practise-se bile / -se de: even if
A plan survives an obstacle: build Turkish “even if” phrases, place the person ending before bile or de, and keep the particle separate even after k.
Read and practise-mişçesine: as if it had happened
A prize imagined, a question seemingly unheard: build all four Turkish “as if” suffix forms and compare their spelling with the separate word gibi.
Read and practise-lan / -len: forming verbs of change
Dust gathers, a shirt gets dirty, a couple marries: choose -lan or -len and learn why a verb’s meaning cannot always be guessed from its base.
Read and practise-gi: nouns from verbs
Affection, knowledge and pressure share a Turkish word-building pattern. Choose its eight suffix forms and add noun endings without inventing new words.
Read and practise-ık / -ik / -uk / -ük: derived nouns and adjectives
A broken plate and an unstitched seam reveal how Turkish -ık/-ik/-uk/-ük forms words: choose the vowel, recognise the meaning and add noun endings.
Read and practiseAction and result nouns
Spelling, measurement and presentation: build established Turkish nouns from verbs, choose the suffix shape and distinguish word formation from possession.
Read and practise-man / -men: established person nouns
Teachers, advisers and experts illustrate a limited Turkish suffix pattern. Recognise established person nouns, choose the vowel and build longer noun forms.
Read and practise-sel / -sal: relational adjectives
Scientific methods and emotional reactions: form Turkish adjectives with two suffix shapes, preserve the stem, and recognise established cultural and national adjectives.
Read and practise-imsi: somewhat, resembling
A bluish curtain or a tangy yogurt: choose all eight Turkish approximation suffix shapes, attach them correctly, and describe a quality in the past.
Read and practiseIrregular causative suffixes
Cooking lentils and dropping a pen reveal two Turkish causative families. Choose the verb’s suffix, apply harmony, and build all six shapes.
Read and practise-leyin: at a time of day
Evening keeps its vowels: attach fixed -leyin in sabahleyin, akşamleyin and geceleyin, recognise öğleyin, and avoid using this ending with clock times.
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