Use uyanmak to describe the end of sleep: a weekend habit, an interrupted night or tomorrow’s early start. The person waking up is the subject; the verb does not say that they leave the bed.
The idea
The stem is uyan-, with final vowel a: uyanıyorum, uyandım, uyanırım. The aorist uyanırım presents a general habit; uyanıyorum can describe waking now or a current routine. In uyanacağım and uyanacağız, the future suffix’s k becomes ğ before the vowel of the person ending. Note the negative aorist pair uyanmam (I do not wake up) and uyanmayız (we do not wake up), alongside uyanmaz (he/she does not wake up).
| Person | Present continuous | Aorist | Past | Future | Negative aorist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ben | uyanıyorum | uyanırım | uyandım | uyanacağım | uyanmam |
| sen | uyanıyorsun | uyanırsın | uyandın | uyanacaksın | uyanmazsın |
| o | uyanıyor | uyanır | uyandı | uyanacak | uyanmaz |
| biz | uyanıyoruz | uyanırız | uyandık | uyanacağız | uyanmayız |
| siz | uyanıyorsunuz | uyanırsınız | uyandınız | uyanacaksınız | uyanmazsınız |
| onlar | uyanıyorlar | uyanırlar | uyandılar | uyanacaklar | uyanmazlar |
Examples
- Ben hafta sonları geç uyanırım.I wake up late on weekends.
- Bebek bugün erkenden uyandı.The baby woke up early today.
- Biz yarın altıda uyanacağız.We will wake up at six tomorrow.
- Sessiz ol, bebek yeni uyanıyor.Be quiet, the baby is just waking up.
- Dün uyandım ama yataktan kalkmadım.Yesterday I woke up but did not get out of bed.
- Sabahları alarm çalmadan uyanmam.In the mornings I do not wake up without the alarm ringing.
- Sen de gece uyandın mı?Did you wake up during the night too?
- Kızım uyandı; onu ben uyandırmadım.My daughter woke up; I did not wake her.
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Watch out
“Wake the baby” needs bebeği uyandırmak: uyanmak has no direct object. Compare Bebek uyandı with Bebeği uyandırdım. Nor is waking the same as getting up: uyandım ama yataktan kalkmadım is perfectly possible. In Sen de gece uyandın mı?, both de and mı are separate words.
Try it yourself
Complete with “I wake up” in the aorist, for a regular weekend habit.
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uyanırım
uyanırım: the prompt asks for the aorist of a recurring habit. Add -ır to uyan- and -ım for the speaker; uyanıyorum would be possible in a routine description, but is not the requested form.
Ask when someone woke up last night. Use the second-person singular past.
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uyandın
uyandın: dün gece places the question in the past. The stem ends in voiced n, so the past has d; the final -n identifies the person addressed.
Say “I will wake up early tomorrow”, using the first-person singular future.
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uyanacağım
uyanacağım: yarın and the requested future call for -acak. Before the first-person -ım, its k softens to ğ; the stem’s n stays.
The baby did not wake up despite the noise. Use the negative past.
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uyanmadı
uyanmadı: the baby remained asleep, so negate the event with -ma- before past -dı. Uyandırmadı would instead say that someone did not wake another person.
Practice round
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Complete with “I wake up” in the aorist, for a regular weekend habit.
Ask when someone woke up last night. Use the second-person singular past.
Say “I will wake up early tomorrow”, using the first-person singular future.
The baby did not wake up despite the noise. Use the negative past.
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Write a usual waking time with uyanırım, a sentence about last night and a plan for tomorrow. Add a sentence that makes clear whether you woke up yourself or woke someone else.