Karşılamak can describe receiving an arriving person, supplying what is needed, or reacting to news. Use the object and the surrounding words to choose the meaning; a welcoming gesture is only one possibility.
The idea
Karşılamak is transitive: seni karşılamak means to welcome or meet you on arrival, masrafları karşılamak to cover the expenses, and ihtiyacı karşılamak to meet the need. In haberi sevinçle karşılamak, the news is the object and sevinçle tells you how it is received. The stem karşıla- gives karşılıyorum, but karşıladım and karşılayacağım. Useful negatives are karşılamıyorum and karşılamam; the question is written karşılıyor musun?.
| Person | Present continuous | Past | Future | Aorist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ben | karşılıyorum | karşıladım | karşılayacağım | karşılarım |
| sen | karşılıyorsun | karşıladın | karşılayacaksın | karşılarsın |
| o | karşılıyor | karşıladı | karşılayacak | karşılar |
| biz | karşılıyoruz | karşıladık | karşılayacağız | karşılarız |
| siz | karşılıyorsunuz | karşıladınız | karşılayacaksınız | karşılarsınız |
| onlar | karşılıyorlar | karşıladılar | karşılayacaklar | karşılarlar |
Examples
- Görevli konukları karşılıyor.The attendant is welcoming the guests.
- Komşumuz bizi karşıladı.Our neighbour welcomed us.
- Bu ücret masrafları karşılar.This fee covers the expenses.
- Yeni depo köyün su ihtiyacını karşılıyor.The new tank meets the village’s water needs.
- Ekip bu haberi sevinçle karşıladı.The team greeted this news with joy.
- Bu oda beklentilerimizi karşılamıyor.This room does not meet our expectations.
- Yarın sizi girişte karşılayacağım.I will meet you at the entrance tomorrow.
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Watch out
Do not confuse seni karşılamak with seninle karşılaşmak, to encounter you or run into you. The arriving person is a direct object, not a companion marked with -le. Also, beklentileri karşılamak means to meet expectations, not to greet them.
Try it yourself
Complete with the form of “you” for welcoming: I will meet you at the station.
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seni
seni: you are the person being met at the station, so use the accusative of sen. Seninle would mean “with you” and does not fill that role.
Use the present continuous, first person singular: I am welcoming the guests now.
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karşılıyorum
karşılıyorum: şimdi fixes the action in progress and the prompt specifies “I”. The final a of karşıla- narrows to ı before -yor, and -um marks the speaker.
Use the future, first person singular: I will meet you tomorrow.
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karşılayacağım
karşılayacağım: yarın and the instruction call for the future. A linking y follows karşıla-, and the future ending’s k becomes ğ before the first-person ending.
Choose the word meaning “with understanding”: the team received the change with understanding.
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anlayışla
anlayışla: the blank describes the team’s attitude to the change. Anlayış names understanding; anlayışla says “with understanding”, so it modifies how the change was received.
Practice round
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Complete with the form of “you” for welcoming: I will meet you at the station.
Use the present continuous, first person singular: I am welcoming the guests now.
Use the future, first person singular: I will meet you tomorrow.
Choose the word meaning “with understanding”: the team received the change with understanding.
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Write a plan for receiving visitors, then say who will cover the expenses. Add a sentence about how the group received some news. Check the object and the verb form in each sentence.