denemek: try something out or try doing it
A jacket, a recipe, a possible solution: denemek lets you try them out. Practise its forms and turn an action into the thing you try.
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Turkish verbs
Learn each verb with its stem, tenses and common sentences, from olmak and gitmek to less frequent verbs.
Adventure journal
Turkish verbs
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Kazanmak: win a match, earn money
A match, an income, new experience: kazanmak covers all three. Practise its present, past, future and habitual forms, and distinguish winning from defeating.
Read and practiseKaybetmek: lose things, time or a game
A missing glove, wasted time, a game you lose: practise kaybetmek and its changing stem, then distinguish losing something from getting lost.
Read and practiseHarcamak: spend money, time and effort
Where does your money go? Harcamak names what you spend and what you spend it on. Practise its forms and distinguish time devoted to a task from time passed somewhere.
Read and practisebiriktirmek: save up and collect
Small amounts add up: biriktirmek describes saving money or collecting objects. Practise its forms and distinguish your action from money building up.
Read and practisekaçmak: escape and avoid
An open window, a noisy city, a duty to avoid: kaçmak connects escape with what you leave behind. Practise its forms and distinguish it from missing a bus.
Read and practiseTo catch: forms and objects
A flying ball, the last bus, a new opportunity: practise the Turkish verb for catching and see why the bus takes a different ending with “reach in time”.
Read and practisedüşmek: falling, dropping and going down
A wallet on the floor, a colder night: Turkish uses the same verb for both. Practise falling from and onto a place, and distinguish falling from dropping something.
Read and practiseKırmak: break objects, hurt feelings
Cracked walnuts and hurt feelings both use kırmak. Practise kırıyorum, kıracağım and kırarım, and distinguish breaking something from something breaking.
Read and practiseKesmek: cut, slice and interrupt
Cardboard, bread and a conversation: kesmek covers cutting and interrupting. Practise kestim, keseceğiz and keser, then distinguish an action from a power cut.
Read and practisedökmek: pour deliberately or spill by accident
Sauce onto pasta or water onto the floor: dökmek covers pouring and spilling. Practise döküyorum, döktüm and dökeceğim with liquids and loose ingredients.
Read and practisedoldurmak: fill a container, complete a form
A jug of water and a blank form both need doldurmak. Practise its common forms, mark what you fill, and distinguish filling something from becoming full.
Read and practiseBoşaltmak: empty a container, clear a space
A full drawer or a crowded shelf: boşaltmak removes what is inside or on it. Practise its forms, object endings and the contrast with boşalmak.
Read and practiseToplamak: gather, pick and tidy up
Scattered leaves and a messy room call for the same Turkish verb. Practise gathering, fruit picking and tidying, with present, past, future and habitual forms.
Read and practiseDağıtmak: hand out, distribute and make a mess
A deck of cards or a messy room: dağıtmak changes meaning with its object. Practise its forms and distinguish what you hand out from who receives it.
Read and practisesaymak: counting and considering
From counting buttons to judging a mistake: practise saymak, distinguish sayarım from sayıyorum, and count up to a number with yirmiye kadar.
Read and practiseKarıştırmak: stir, mix and confuse
Stirring soup or confusing salt with sugar? Karıştırmak covers both. Practise its forms, the object pattern and the difference from karışmak.
Read and practisetemizlemek: clean a surface or a room
A spotless mirror and a tidy room are different results. Practise temizlemek in five forms, mark what you clean, and distinguish cleaning from putting things away.
Read and practiseWipe, erase, delete: one Turkish verb
A dusty mirror and an unwanted file both call for the same Turkish verb. Practise its forms and distinguish the object you wipe from the place you remove something from.
Read and practisesüpürmek: sweeping and vacuuming
Crumbs on the floor, dust on the carpet: süpürmek covers sweeping and vacuuming. Practise its forms, name the surface and distinguish it from wiping.
Read and practisedikmek: sew a skirt, plant a sapling
A needle or a sapling gives dikmek its meaning. Practise sewing and planting with dikiyorum, diktim, dikeceğim and dikerim, and distinguish seeds from seedlings.
Read and practiseÇizmek: draw lines, sketch and scratch
A pencil draws; a key scratches: çizmek covers both. Practise çizer and çizeceğiz, describe shapes and plans, and use altını çizmek to underline a word.
Read and practiseboyamak: painting surfaces and dyeing hair
A shelf in blue, a wall in white: boyamak connects an object with its new colour. Practise boyuyorum, boyayacağız and the difference between painting and making a picture.
Read and practisePlaying, stealing and ringing in Turkish
A violin, a stolen bicycle and a ringing phone share one Turkish verb. Practise its forms and use the whole sentence to decide which meaning fits.
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