You will say what people are doing and did with yapmak, and learn everyday pairings such as ödev yapmak and spor yapmak.
The idea
The stem yap- ends in the voiceless p, so the past ending is hard: yap + tı = yaptı, yaptım, yaptık. The present continuous puts -ıyor after the stem: yapıyorum, yapıyorsun, yapıyor. With a noun, yapmak covers many everyday activities where English says have, go or play: kahvaltı yapmak (have breakfast), alışveriş yapmak (go shopping), spor yapmak (do sport).
| Person | Present | Past |
|---|---|---|
| ben | yapıyorum | yaptım |
| sen | yapıyorsun | yaptın |
| o | yapıyor | yaptı |
| biz | yapıyoruz | yaptık |
| siz | yapıyorsunuz | yaptınız |
| onlar | yapıyorlar | yaptılar |
Examples
- Şimdi ne yapıyorsun?What are you doing now?
- Dün akşam ödevimi yaptım.I did my homework last night.In general the noun stays bare (ödev yaptım); it takes -i once it is a specific piece of homework, here ödevimi.
- Babam her sabah spor yapıyor.My father exercises every morning.
- Biz evde kahvaltı yaptık.We had breakfast at home.
- Ödev yapıyor musun?Are you doing homework?The question particle is written apart and takes the person ending: yapıyorsun becomes yapıyor musun.
- Annem pazarda alışveriş yaptı.My mother did her shopping at the market.
- Akşam yemeği yapıyorum.I am cooking dinner.
- Özür dilerim, hata yaptım.I am sorry, I made a mistake.
- yapıyorumI am doingyapıyor-iyor / -ıyor / -uyor / -üyor: happening nowum-im / -sin / -iz / -siniz: I am, you are, we are
- yaptıkwe didyaptı-di, -dı, -du, -dü, -ti: the past (geldi, yaptı)kPast person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler
- yapmıyorsunuzyou are not doing (plural)yapmıyor-miyor / -mıyor / -muyor / -müyor: not doing nowsunuz-im / -sin / -iz / -siniz: I am, you are, we are
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Watch out
Do not write yapdım: after the voiceless p the past ending is -tı, so yaptım. And the p of a verb stem never softens the way it does in kitap → kitabı: it is yapıyor, not yabıyor.
Try it yourself
Write yapmak in the past tense for I: Yesterday I did homework.
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yaptım
yaptım: the stem ends in the voiceless p, so the ending is -tı, and -m marks "I".
Write yapmak in the present with -ıyor for we: We are doing sport now.
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yapıyoruz
yapıyoruz: the last stem vowel a is back and unrounded, so ı goes before yor; after the rounded o, "we" is -uz.
Write yapmak in the past tense for they: They had breakfast this morning.
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yaptılar
yaptılar: -tı because of the voiceless p, then -lar because the last vowel ı is back.
Write yapmak in the present with -ıyor for you (singular): What are you doing now?
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yapıyorsun
yapıyorsun: after -ıyor, "you" takes -sun, because the vowel o is back and rounded.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Write yapmak in the past tense for I: Yesterday I did homework.
Write yapmak in the present with -ıyor for we: We are doing sport now.
Write yapmak in the past tense for they: They had breakfast this morning.
Write yapmak in the present with -ıyor for you (singular): What are you doing now?
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the parts in order to build this word: I am doing
Tap the parts in order to build this word: we did
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