Use çağırmak when you want someone to come, whether you call them into the kitchen or invite them for breakfast. The destination helps the listener understand which meaning you intend.
The idea
The person called is the object: beni çağır means call me over. A specified person takes the accusative, while the place or occasion takes the dative: komşuları kahvaltıya çağırmak. Keep the whole stem çağır- in çağırıyorum, çağırdım and çağırırım. In çağıracağım and çağıracağız, the future ending’s k becomes ğ. The table shows plural endings for onlar; a singular verb is also possible with a plural human subject.
| Person | Present continuous | Past | Future | Aorist | Negative present |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ben | çağırıyorum | çağırdım | çağıracağım | çağırırım | çağırmıyorum |
| sen | çağırıyorsun | çağırdın | çağıracaksın | çağırırsın | çağırmıyorsun |
| o | çağırıyor | çağırdı | çağıracak | çağırır | çağırmıyor |
| biz | çağırıyoruz | çağırdık | çağıracağız | çağırırız | çağırmıyoruz |
| siz | çağırıyorsunuz | çağırdınız | çağıracaksınız | çağırırsınız | çağırmıyorsunuz |
| onlar | çağırıyorlar | çağırdılar | çağıracaklar | çağırırlar | çağırmıyorlar |
Examples
- Annem bizi mutfağa çağırıyor.My mother is calling us into the kitchen.
- Öğretmen bugün velileri çağırdı.The teacher called the parents in today.
- Yarın komşuları kahvaltıya çağıracağız.Tomorrow we will invite the neighbours for breakfast.
- Dedem her pazar bizi yemeğe çağırır.My grandfather invites us for a meal every Sunday.
- Bu akşam kimseyi çağırmıyoruz.We are not inviting anyone this evening.
- Beni de toplantıya çağırır mısınız?Could you invite me to the meeting too?
- Babam teyzemi telefonla aradı ve eve çağırdı.My father phoned my aunt and invited her over to the house.
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Watch out
English call can mean telephone, but çağırmak does not by itself say that you used a phone. Use aramak for phoning. You can phone someone and then invite them: telefonla aramak and eve çağırmak describe different parts of that situation.
Try it yourself
Complete in the present continuous: I am calling the children into the kitchen now.
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çağırıyorum
çağırıyorum: ben requires the first-person form, and şimdi places the action in progress. The stem keeps its dotless ı before -ıyor.
Complete in the future: We will invite the neighbours for breakfast tomorrow.
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çağıracağız
çağıracağız: biz names the inviting group. The future form ends in -acağız; its k softens before the vowel of the first-person plural ending.
Choose the pronoun meaning me: The teacher invited me to the meeting.
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beni
beni: I am the person invited, so the object form is needed. Bana means to me; here the destination is already expressed by toplantıya.
Choose the verb for phoning: My father phoned my aunt yesterday.
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aradı
aradı: the prompt asks for a phone call. Çağırdı would say that he called her over or invited her, rather than simply describing the telephone conversation.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Complete in the present continuous: I am calling the children into the kitchen now.
Complete in the future: We will invite the neighbours for breakfast tomorrow.
Choose the pronoun meaning me: The teacher invited me to the meeting.
Choose the verb for phoning: My father phoned my aunt yesterday.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Write a breakfast invitation and a request to call someone into a room. Underline the invited person and the destination. Then write a separate sentence about phoning someone; continue with tanımak next.