taranmak: combing your own hair
Talk about combing your own hair with taranmak, compare saçımı taramak and recognise the passive meaning when hair is the subject.
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Turkish verbs
Learn each verb with its stem, tenses and common sentences, from olmak and gitmek to less frequent verbs.
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yıkanmak: washing yourself and things being washed
Describe washing yourself with yıkanmak and recognise its passive meaning with clothes and dishes; compare yıkadım and yıkandım in context.
Read and practisekurulanmak: drying yourself with a towel
Describe drying yourself after swimming or showering with kurulanmak; practise havluyla, the washing sequence and three tense forms.
Read and practisekurulamak: drying dishes, hands and surfaces
Use kurulamak to dry dishes, hands and wet surfaces; form kuruluyorum, kuruladık and kurulayacağım and contrast drying yourself.
Read and practiseuyandırmak: waking someone else up
Wake someone with uyandırmak: mark the person as beni, seni or babamı, contrast uyanmak and practise requests and three tense forms.
Read and practiseuyutmak: helping someone fall asleep
Distinguish uyumak from uyutmak: name who falls asleep and who helps, practise uyutuyorum and uyuttuk, and use the object ending.
Read and practiseuzanmak: lying down, reaching and extending
Read uzanmak through context: lie down on a sofa, reach for a book or describe a road stretching to the sea; practise dative targets.
Read and practiseeğilmek: bending down and bowing
Describe bending down, ducking through a doorway and bowing with eğilmek; learn eğiliyorum, eğildik and eğileceğim in context.
Read and practisedoğrulmak: straightening up and sitting up
Use doğrulmak for straightening up in a chair, sitting up in bed or rising after a bow; distinguish the movement from standing up.
Read and practisezıplamak: jumping, hopping and bouncing
Use zıplamak for people jumping, a dog hopping and a ball bouncing; learn zıplıyorum, zıpladık and zıplayacağım with translated examples.
Read and practiseatlamak: jumping and skipping an item
Learn atlamak in jump-rope, obstacle and reading contexts; distinguish jumping from skipping a question, section or meal using its objects.
Read and practisetırmanmak: climbing with destinations and routes
Use tırmanmak for hills, trees and rising prices; compare dağa as a destination with yokuşu as a route and practise three tense forms.
Read and practisekaymak: sliding, slipping and skating
Understand kaymak in skating, slides, a slipping foot and moving over on a seat; learn kayıyorum, kaydık and kayacağım in context.
Read and practisekaydırmak: moving objects and scrolling pages
Use kaydırmak to slide a table, scroll a page or shift a meeting time; contrast kaydı with kaydırdım and practise objects and directions.
Read and practisesürmek: driving, spreading and lasting
Understand sürmek with cars, bicycles, butter and duration; distinguish who drives from what lasts and practise sürüyorum, sürdük and süreceğim.
Read and practisefrenlemek: braking and holding something back
Describe braking with frenlemek, distinguish it from coming to a complete stop and recognise its figurative use for curbing shopping.
Read and practiseçarpmak: multiplying, bumping and beating
Use çarpmak for multiplication, a bump or a beating heart; compare beşi dörtle and pencereye, and learn the past consonants in çarptık.
Read and practiseçarpışmak: colliding with each other
Describe mutual collisions with çarpışmak, name a partner with seninle or biriyle, and distinguish çarptı from çarpıştı in clear examples.
Read and practisegeçirmek: spending time and passing something through
Spend an evening or afternoon with geçirmek, compare zaman geçti with günü geçirdik and recognise experience and passing-through contexts.
Read and practisegeçinmek: getting along and making ends meet
Use geçinmek for getting along with neighbours and living on an income; interpret -le by context and distinguish the verb from geçirmek.
Read and practisedönüşmek: turning into something else
Describe a warehouse becoming a library, rain turning to snow and a room changing use; mark the result with the dative in dönüşmek sentences.
Read and practisedönüştürmek: turning one thing into another
Turn bottles into vases, a room into a study and notes into a report with dönüştürmek; mark the original object and the resulting form.
Read and practisekaldırmak: lifting, raising and removing
Use kaldırmak with a box, a raised hand and items removed from a wall or list; distinguish lifting from carrying and practise three tenses.
Read and practiseoturtmak: seating someone and fitting parts
Learn oturtmak for seating guests and fitting a lid into place; contrast oturmak and practise object, destination and tense forms.
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