Use varmak when the journey reaches its endpoint. You can report an arrival, predict when you will get somewhere or describe reaching a conclusion. The table gives affirmative forms for all six persons.
The idea
The destination takes the dative: istasyona varmak, köye varmak. The stem stays var-: varıyorum, vardım. Learn the aorist varır, not varar, even though the stem has one syllable. The future is varacağım for “I” and varacağız for “we”; the ending’s k becomes ğ before a vowel. The same destination pattern appears in sonuca varmak, “reach a conclusion”. Useful negatives are varmadım and varmayacağım; write the question separately: vardın mı?
| Person | Present continuous | Past | Future | Aorist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ben | varıyorum | vardım | varacağım | varırım |
| sen | varıyorsun | vardın | varacaksın | varırsın |
| o | varıyor | vardı | varacak | varır |
| biz | varıyoruz | vardık | varacağız | varırız |
| siz | varıyorsunuz | vardınız | varacaksınız | varırsınız |
| onlar | varıyorlar | vardılar | varacaklar | varırlar |
Examples
- Tren sonunda istasyona vardı.The train finally arrived at the station.
- Akşam köye varacağız.We will arrive in the village in the evening.
- Misafirler otele erken vardılar.The guests arrived at the hotel early.
- Bu otobüs her sabah buraya dokuzda varır.This bus arrives here at nine every morning.
- Şimdi köprünün sonuna varıyoruz.We are now reaching the end of the bridge.
- Dün aynı sonuca vardık.Yesterday we reached the same conclusion.
- Henüz bir sonuca varmadık.We have not reached a conclusion yet.
- Köye vardın mı?Have you arrived in the village?
- Yarın köye öğleden önce varacağım.I will arrive in the village before noon tomorrow.
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Watch out
An arrival location still takes the dative: otele vardık, not otelde vardık. Compare otelde kaldık, “we stayed at the hotel”, where the locative fits. Also distinguish the arrival verb from var, “there is”: Otelde bir havuz var describes the existence of a pool, not an arrival.
Try it yourself
Put istasyon (station) in the dative to mark the destination.
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istasyona
istasyona: the station is the endpoint of the train’s journey. The final vowel of istasyon selects -a; istasyonda would mean “at the station”.
Complete with the third-person singular aorist of varmak.
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varır
varır: her sabah presents a repeated arrival. This verb takes -ır in the aorist, and the third-person singular needs no additional person ending.
Use the first-person singular future of varmak.
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varacağım
varacağım: yarın places the arrival tomorrow, and the prompt asks for “I”. Adding -ım to varacak changes the ending’s k to ğ.
Use the negative past of varmak with “we”: no conclusion yet.
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varmadık
varmadık: henüz and the negative say that no conclusion has been reached yet. The parts are var- + -ma + -dı + -k; the last part marks “we”.
Practice round
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Put istasyon (station) in the dative to mark the destination.
Complete with the third-person singular aorist of varmak.
Use the first-person singular future of varmak.
Use the negative past of varmak with “we”: no conclusion yet.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Write when a bus usually arrives, when you arrived yesterday and when you will arrive tomorrow. Then add one sentence about a conclusion you have not reached yet. Mark each destination and check the tense.