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A Pastane - Cake Shop in the İstanbul shopping area. |
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The Irregular Wide Tense (Geniş Zaman) Verb ListThe 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 UNote 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: Mehmet, arabayı caddede durdurdu - Mehmet stopped the car in the street. Turkish Single Syllable Verbs - Dotted Vowel Group - E İ Ö ÜNote 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.
Many of these verbs are in common daily use, and should be committed to memory |
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