You will conjugate kalmak (to stay, to remain) in the present continuous, past and future and say where someone stays.
The idea
The stem kal- is regular, but its vowel is the back vowel a, so every ending takes its back shape: kalıyorum, kaldım, kalacağım. The place where you stay takes the locative: evde kalıyorum, otelde kaldık. The verb also means to be left over: iki elma kaldı.
| Person | Present continuous | Past | Future |
|---|---|---|---|
| ben | kalıyorum | kaldım | kalacağım |
| sen | kalıyorsun | kaldın | kalacaksın |
| o | kalıyor | kaldı | kalacak |
| biz | kalıyoruz | kaldık | kalacağız |
| siz | kalıyorsunuz | kaldınız | kalacaksınız |
| onlar | kalıyorlar | kaldılar | kalacaklar |
Examples
- Bu akşam evde kalıyorum.I am staying at home this evening.
- Dün gece otelde kaldık.We stayed in a hotel last night.
- Hafta sonu bizde kalacaksın.You will stay at our place at the weekend.Bizde is biz plus the locative: at our place. The same pattern gives sende and onda.
- Sepette iki elma kaldı.Two apples are left in the basket.Kalmak also means to be left over. The thing left is the subject, and the place takes the locative: sepette.
- Ben burada kalacağım.I will stay here.The stem ends in a, so the future is -acak, not -ecek. Its k becomes ğ before the vowel of -ım: kalacak, kalacağım.
- kalıyorumI am staying.kalıyor-iyor / -ıyor / -uyor / -üyor: happening nowum-im / -sin / -iz / -siniz: I am, you are, we are
- kalmadıkWe did not stay.kalmadı-medi / -madı: the negative pastkPast person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler
- kalacağızWe will stay.kalacağ-ecek / -acak: will, going toız-im / -sin / -iz / -siniz: I am, you are, we are
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Watch out
Do not copy the front-vowel endings of gelmek: kaliyorum and kalecek are wrong. After a the endings are -ıyor and -acak, so it is kalıyorum and kalacağım, with the dotless ı and the k turning into ğ before a vowel.
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Future tense: I will stay here tomorrow.
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kalacağım
kalacağım: the last vowel of kal- is a, so the future suffix is -acak. Its final k becomes ğ before -ım.
Past tense: We stayed in a hotel last night.
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kaldık
kaldık: the past -dı has the dotless ı after a, and -k is the ending for "we".
Present continuous: Where are you (all) staying now?
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kalıyorsunuz
kalıyorsunuz: the back vowel a gives -ıyor, and -sunuz is the ending for "you (all)".
Negative past: Ali did not stay at school yesterday.
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kalmadı
kalmadı: the negative -ma- sits between the stem and the past -dı; the third person has no person ending.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Future tense: I will stay here tomorrow.
Past tense: We stayed in a hotel last night.
Present continuous: Where are you (all) staying now?
Negative past: Ali did not stay at school yesterday.
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Tap the parts in order to build this word: I am staying.
Tap the parts in order to build this word: We did not stay.
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Write three sentences with kalmak: where you stayed the last time you travelled, where you are staying now and where you will stay next.