yıkanmak: washing yourself and things being washed

The idea

Yıkan- keeps n in yıkanıyorum, yıkandık and yıkanacağım. A person as subject usually gives the self-washing reading.

Examples

• Ben antrenmandan sonra duşta yıkanıyorum.I wash in the shower after training.
• Dün denizden sonra temiz suyla yıkandık.Yesterday we washed with clean water after swimming in the sea.
• Yarın kahvaltıdan önce yıkanacağım.Tomorrow I will wash before breakfast.
• Bu kazak elde yıkanıyor.This sweater is washed by hand.
• Bardaklar yıkandı ama henüz kurumadı.The glasses have been washed but have not dried yet.
• Ellerimi yıkadım; henüz tamamen yıkanmadım.I washed my hands; I have not washed my whole body yet.

Watch out

To name a body part as the object, use ellerimi yıkadım. Yıkandım instead says that I washed myself.

Try it yourself

1. Complete in the present continuous: Ben şimdi duşta ___. (yıkanmak)

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   yıkanıyorum

   yıkanıyorum: the present action has the first-person ending because the subject is ben.

2. Complete in the definite past (-di): Biz dün denizden sonra ___. (yıkanmak)

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   yıkandık

   yıkandık: dün locates the event yesterday; final -k agrees with biz.

3. Complete in the future tense: Ben yarın kahvaltıdan önce ___. (yıkanmak)

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   yıkanacağım

   yıkanacağım: use the future requested in the exercise; its k becomes ğ before the vowel of the ben ending.

Use it today

Describe your washing routine, then explain whether a sweater or glass has been washed.