Turkish Language - List of Turkish Intensified Adjectives

This is a pretty comprehensive list of Intensified Turkish Adjectives and Adverbs - many of them are in constant use both in daily conversation and newspapers and periodicals, plus stories and novels. It is a way that language colours itself. So when you are reading or listening you must always be on the look out for this type of usage as it is very common.

If you want to intensify an adjective, you have to follow these steps:
- Take an adjective
- Find the first vowel of the adjective
- Put one of the letters (p,r,s,m) after this first vowel
- Add the original adjective again at the very end In this way, you will be 90% successful. There are some exceptions like , paramparça, çirilçiplak etc. In those cases, the difference from the rule is, you do not put only one letter (p,r,s,m), rather you put 1-2 letters more in between. (-ram- or -ril- as in the examples above) If you should ask how to choose the letter among these 4 - (p,r,s,m). This has no rule, it is just feeling for the one which sounds nicer. Many thanks to Oytun Arslan for noting this. - JG - 19 Sept 2011