You will conjugate durmak (to stop, to stand still) in the present continuous, past, future and negative past, and tell stopping apart from stopping something.
The idea
The stem dur- has the back rounded vowel u: -uyor and -du give duruyorum and durdum, but the future uses -acak: duracağım. Because the stem ends in r, the present continuous is the full -uyor, not -yor. The verb means both to stop (saat durdu) and to stand still in a place (kapıda duruyorum).
| Person | Present continuous | Past | Future | Negative past |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ben | duruyorum | durdum | duracağım | durmadım |
| sen | duruyorsun | durdun | duracaksın | durmadın |
| o | duruyor | durdu | duracak | durmadı |
| biz | duruyoruz | durduk | duracağız | durmadık |
| siz | duruyorsunuz | durdunuz | duracaksınız | durmadınız |
| onlar | duruyorlar | durdular | duracaklar | durmadılar |
Examples
- Yağmur dün akşam durdu.The rain stopped yesterday evening.
- Biz kapının önünde duruyoruz.We are standing in front of the door.Here durmak means to stand in one place, and the place takes the locative: önünde. The pronoun biz may be dropped.
- Saatim dün gece durdu.My watch stopped last night.
- Çocuklar durmadan konuştu.The children talked without stopping.The negative stem durma- plus -dan gives "without stopping", the usual way to say non-stop.
- Şoför arabayı okulun önünde durdurdu.The driver stopped the car in front of the school.Durmak takes no object. With an object it becomes durdurmak: arabayı durdurdu. Without one: araba durdu.
- Lütfen burada durun.Please stop here.The polite or plural command is durun. To one friend you say only the stem: Dur!
- duruyorumI am standing still.duruyor-iyor / -ıyor / -uyor / -üyor: happening nowum-im / -sin / -iz / -siniz: I am, you are, we are
- durmadıkWe did not stop.durmadı-medi / -madı: the negative pastkPast person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler
- duracağızWe will stop.duracağ-ecek / -acak: will, going toız-im / -sin / -iz / -siniz: I am, you are, we are
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Watch out
Durmak never takes a direct object: arabayı durdum is wrong. To stop something, use the causative durdurmak: arabayı durdurdum. When the thing stops by itself, it is araba durdu.
Try it yourself
Present continuous: I am standing at the door now.
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duruyorum
duruyorum = dur + uyor + um. After consonant-final dur-, the present suffix starts with the harmonizing vowel u before yor.
Future: Tomorrow we will stop here.
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duracağız
duracağız: the stem vowel u is a back vowel, so the future is -acak, and its k turns into ğ before the vowel of -ız.
Negative past: The taxi did not stop at all on the way.
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durmadı
durmadı: the negative -ma- sits between the stem and the past -dı, and the third person adds no person ending; for a single taxi only durmadı fits.
Past tense: The driver stopped the car.
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durdurdu
durdurdu: the car is the object, so the causative -dur- is added to the stem (dur-dur-), and the past takes -du after the vowel u.
Practice round
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Present continuous: I am standing at the door now.
Future: Tomorrow we will stop here.
Negative past: The taxi did not stop at all on the way.
Past tense: The driver stopped the car.
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Tap the parts in order to build this word: I am standing still.
Tap the parts in order to build this word: We did not stop.
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Write three sentences with durmak: something that stopped (the rain, a watch, a bus), where you are standing now, and a vehicle that did not stop. Then write one with durdurmak and an object.