A Pastane - Cake Shop in the İstanbul shopping area.

The famous thirteen irregular single syllable verbs in the Simple Present.

Twelve of them end in -l or -r.
sanmak - to suppose - is the exception.

The Irregular Wide Tense (Geniş Zaman) Verb List

The famous thirteen irregular single syllable verbs in the Simple Present. Twelve of them end in -l or -r. The single exception is - sanmak - sanır - to suppose

Turkish Single Syllable Verbs - Undotted Vowel Group A I O U

Note that all other verbs use the regular tense sign -ar - as an example - The Wide Tense (Geniş Zaman) Root of atmak - to throw - becomes - atar - as in - at-ar-ım - I throw

Note that one of the duties that the Causative Verb form carries out is to make intransitive verbs (verbs that do not take an object) into a transitive verb (verbs that do take an object).

The verb - durmak - to stop/to halt - is such a word:
Araba caddede durdu - The car stopped in the street.
(No object in this sentence - it is intransitive)

Mehmet, arabayı caddede durdurdu - Mehmet stopped the car in the street.
(The object in this sentence is arabyı - the car - it is a transitive sentence)

Turkish Single Syllable Verbs - Dotted Vowel Group - E İ Ö Ü

Note that all other verbs use the regular tense sign -er - as an example - The Wide Tense (Geniş Zaman) Root of geçmek - to pass - becomes - geçer - as in - geç-er-im - I pass

Note that the translation of the Causative is literal here. We have to consider that in translation we may use a different verb in English.

If we look at the first example, the Causative of - "to know" - has been literally translated as - "to make know, to cause to know" - of course we may translate this verb into English as - "to notify, to publish etc..".

We must always bear this in mind when translating Causative Verbs from Turkish into English.

Aidememoire - The Verb Stem of these Irregulars ends in an -l or an -r - with one exception - sanmak - to suppose - which ends in -n.

Many of these verbs are in common daily use, and should be committed to memory