An object can fall, a person can lose their balance, and a temperature can go down. Düşmek describes all three. Start with the forms table, then notice what falls and where it lands in each example.
The idea
The stem düş- keeps its ş: düşüyorum, düştüm, düşeceğim, düşerim. The past has t after voiceless ş; in the future, the ending’s k becomes ğ before the first-person vowel. For a fall, the source takes the ablative (koltuktan) and the destination takes the dative (yere). A temperature also falls to a value: beş dereceye düştü.
| Person | Present continuous | Past | Future | Aorist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ben | düşüyorum | düştüm | düşeceğim | düşerim |
| sen | düşüyorsun | düştün | düşeceksin | düşersin |
| o | düşüyor | düştü | düşecek | düşer |
| biz | düşüyoruz | düştük | düşeceğiz | düşeriz |
| siz | düşüyorsunuz | düştünüz | düşeceksiniz | düşersiniz |
| onlar | düşüyorlar | düştüler | düşecekler | düşerler |
Examples
- Cüzdanım koltuktan yere düştü.My wallet fell off the armchair onto the floor.
- Sıcaklık gece beş dereceye düştü.The temperature fell to five degrees at night.
- Çocuk dün bisikletten düştü.The child fell off a bicycle yesterday.
- Dikkat, bu kutu birazdan düşecek!Watch out, this box is about to fall!
- Sonbaharda bu ağacın yaprakları yola düşer.In autumn, the leaves of this tree fall onto the road.
- Ayağım kaydı ama düşmedim.My foot slipped, but I did not fall.
- Anahtarımı suya düşürdüm.I dropped my key into the water.
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Watch out
In the sense “fall”, the thing falling is the subject: Bardak düştü. If you dropped it, use Bardağı düşürdüm: düşürmek makes the glass the object. This can be accidental; the form does not mean you did it deliberately. Also learn the aorist as düşer, not düşür.
Try it yourself
Complete in the past: I fell on the ice yesterday.
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düştüm
düştüm: dün places the fall yesterday, and ben identifies the speaker as the person who fell. The past ending is -tü- after ş, followed by first-person -m.
Complete in the future: Hold me, or I will fall!
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düşeceğim
düşeceğim: the speaker predicts a fall if nobody holds them. The requested future gives düşecek-; adding the first-person ending changes its final k to ğ.
Use the aorist for what the leaves do in autumn.
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düşer
düşer: the leaves fall repeatedly in autumn, so the aorist fits. This verb uses -er. The non-human plural subject normally takes a singular verb here.
Choose the verb and use the past: I accidentally dropped the glass onto the floor.
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düşürdüm
düşürdüm: bardağı is the object, while the speaker caused the fall. Yanlışlıkla tells us it was accidental. Düştüm would say that the speaker fell.
Practice round
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Complete in the past: I fell on the ice yesterday.
Complete in the future: Hold me, or I will fall!
Use the aorist for what the leaves do in autumn.
Choose the verb and use the past: I accidentally dropped the glass onto the floor.
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Tap the words in the right order.
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Write about an object that fell, something you accidentally dropped and a temperature that will fall. Name the source or destination in at least one sentence. Then practise the next verb, kırmak.