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| georgia_96 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4663 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish | Message 1 of 4 19 February 2012 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello everyone! It's my first time posting on here, and I'm hoping somebody will be able to help me! I can't seem to come to terms with Turkish grammar, mainly the suffixes and word order! It's all very well that I know the words and what they mean, but I can't really make sentences without understanding the use of the suffixes, ect. Would anybody be able to explain, or send me some links which would help me to understand it? Thank you in advance! I am hoping I have worded this message in the best way possible.
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 4 19 February 2012 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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At the risk of sounding flippant, what courses have you tried so far?
Every course that I've seen will take you through the basics of word order and what the various suffixes do. Beginning Turkish grammar is really one of the more logical, once you know the rules. Of course, things get trickier the more advanced you get, but picking up a beginner course will answer most of your questions. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kappa Groupie Japan Joined 5521 days ago 99 posts - 172 votes | Message 3 of 4 19 February 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Howdy!
As hrhenry pointed out, each and every course/textbook should teach you how to use the basic suffixes as they're very fundamental to the language I believe. Even when you look at a simple expression like "güle güle", you find a suffix, in this case "-e". Since you seem to have some vocabulary, you may have learned some of them but just haven't gotten around to practicing. It may seem a little complicated but it just takes some getting used to. I'm not in any place to give a lecture on anything, so I just wish you luck with your studies. For reference: Manisa Turkish The Turkish Suffix Dictionary Learning Practical Turkish Have fun! Kappa 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6086 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 4 of 4 22 February 2012 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
The use of suffixes in Turkish is pretty overwhelming! The best thing to do is to pick one thing at a time and study it. The Critical Language Series has some free lessons. It has small dialogues showing you how to build the pronouns and (the second dialogue), the plurals. This lesson has a video. Turkish word order is different but here's 2 basic rules that helped me get started: 1. The verb goes at the end 2. Whatever you want to make most important in the sentence goes before the verb. Here's a sentence: Ahmet is waiting for Hatice at the school Ahmet Haticeyı okulda bekliyor. the emphasis is that Ahmet is waiting at the school Ahmet okulda Haticeyı bekliyor. the emphasis is that Ahmet is waiting for Hatice Here's another sentence: Today the weather is very nice Bugün hava çok güzel. the emphasis is the weather is very nice Hava bugün çok güzel. the emphasis is today is very nice That's how I understand it but I'm a beginner and I still have a long way to go! edit: the intro to word order at http://www.tuerkisch-lernen-online.de/index.html is a good resource for German speakers and is what I'm using. Edited by Sunja on 22 February 2012 at 8:31pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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