You will conjugate buluşmak in the present, past, future and negative, and add the right form of -le to the person you meet.
The idea
Buluşmak means to arrange to meet someone and get together. It is a reciprocal verb (bul-uş-mak), so the person is marked with ile or -le/-la and never with the accusative: Ayşe'yle buluşuyorum, seninle buluşacağım. The place takes the locative: kafede buluşuyoruz. The stem ends in the voiceless ş, so the past ending starts with t: buluştum, buluştuk. In the future the k of -acak becomes ğ before a vowel: buluşacağım. The negative is buluşmuyorum.
| Person | Present | Past | Future | Negative present |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ben | buluşuyorum | buluştum | buluşacağım | buluşmuyorum |
| sen | buluşuyorsun | buluştun | buluşacaksın | buluşmuyorsun |
| o | buluşuyor | buluştu | buluşacak | buluşmuyor |
| biz | buluşuyoruz | buluştuk | buluşacağız | buluşmuyoruz |
| siz | buluşuyorsunuz | buluştunuz | buluşacaksınız | buluşmuyorsunuz |
| onlar | buluşuyorlar | buluştular | buluşacaklar | buluşmuyorlar |
Examples
- Ayşe'yle sinemada buluşuyoruz.We are meeting Ayşe at the cinema.The person takes -le, not the accusative. After the vowel e a buffer y comes in (Ayşe'yle), and the apostrophe separates the name. The pronoun biz may be dropped.
- Seninle yarın buluşacağım.I will meet you tomorrow.With you is seninle, an irregular form: sen becomes senin before -le. Never seni buluşacağım. The k of -acak turns into ğ before the vowel of -ım.
- Dün akşam arkadaşlarımızla kafede buluştuk.We met our friends at a café yesterday evening.The stem ends in the voiceless ş, so the past ending starts with t: buluştuk, not buluşduk. The possessive -ımız comes before -la.
- Saat kaçta buluşuyoruz?What time are we meeting?Kaç ends in the voiceless ç, so the locative is -ta: kaçta. The present continuous often speaks about an arrangement.
- Ali ile Deniz parkta buluştu.Ali and Deniz met in the park.Buluşmak is reciprocal, so it has no object: two people meet each other. After a pair joined by ile the verb is usually singular (buluştu); buluştular is also possible.
- Bugün kimseyle buluşmuyorum.I am not meeting anyone today.After the vowel e, kimse takes a buffer y: kimseyle. The negative suffix comes before -yor: buluşmuyorum, with u like the vowel of the stem.
- buluşmakto meet upbuluşReciprocal verb suffixmak-mek / -mak: the infinitive
- buluşacağızwe will meetbuluşReciprocal verb suffixacağ-ecek / -acak: will, going toız-im / -sin / -iz / -siniz: I am, you are, we are
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Watch out
Do not make the person an object: seni buluşuyorum and Ayşe'yi buluşuyorum are wrong. Say seninle buluşuyorum; the pronouns are irregular: benimle, seninle, onunla, bizimle, sizinle, onlarla. To get to know someone new, the verb is tanışmak.
Try it yourself
Add “with” to sen (you): with you.
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seninle
seninle: the pronoun takes -in before the ending (as in benimle, onunla), and the front vowel i gives -le.
Put buluş- into the past for ben: I met up.
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buluştum
buluştum: the stem ends in the voiceless ş, so the ending starts with t, and the vowel u gives -tu; -m marks ben.
Put buluş- into the future for biz: we will meet.
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buluşacağız
buluşacağız: after a consonant -acak attaches directly, its k becomes ğ before the vowel of -ız, and the back vowel u gives -acak.
Add “with” to arkadaşlarım (my friends): with my friends.
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arkadaşlarımla
arkadaşlarımla: the word ends in m, so no buffer is needed, and the back vowel ı gives -la; the possessive stays before the case suffix.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Add “with” to sen (you): with you.
Put buluş- into the past for ben: I met up.
Put buluş- into the future for biz: we will meet.
Add “with” to arkadaşlarım (my friends): with my friends.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the parts in order to build this word: to meet up
Tap the parts in order to build this word: we will meet
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Write three sentences about who you are meeting this week and where. Check the form of -le/-la on each person.

