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Vowel and Consonant Harmony Turkish Language

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Turkish grammar is built on the principle of harmony. To speak and write correctly, you must understand how vowels and consonants influence the suffixes attached to words.Alphabet...

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Expressing Desire: "I want to..." (mAk istemek)

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This structure is essential for expressing what you want or intend to do. In Turkish, instead of conjugating two verbs back-to-back, the first verb stays in its "infinitive&qu...

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Turkish Nominal Sentences (İsim Cümleleri)

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A nominal sentence is one where the predicate is a noun or an adjective (e.g., "I am a teacher," "You are tired"). In Turkish, we create these sentences by addi...

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Emphatic Adjectives (Pekiştirme Sıfatları)

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Emphatic adjectives are used in Turkish to intensify the meaning of a quality, similar to how we say "pitch black" or "squeaky clean" in English. There is no st...

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Turkish Dative Case: Preposition "To" (A / E)

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In Turkish, the preposition "To" (indicating direction or approaching) is a suffix attached to the end of a word. It follows the rules of 2-way vowel harmony.The Basic Ru...

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Preposition "DAN" in Turkish (From / Out of / Than)

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In Turkish, the preposition for "from" is expressed by the suffix -DAN. It is used whenever you are moving away from a location, receiving something from someone, or iden...

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