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Hi everybody, I'm Seda Surerl.

Herkese merhaba ben Seda Surerl

and welcome back to another Turkish whiteboard lesson

and today we will be talking about common Turkish verbs for daily conversation.

Are you guys ready?

Let's get started.

Okay, now let's look at the vocabulary, okay?

First verb

izliyorum

I'm watching

izliyorum

I'm watching.

You may noticed we don't say ben, I, ben, I

because in Turkish

we not only put the tense in the verb but also the pronoun.

That's why we don't have to say the pronoun I, ben again, okay?

If you want to emphasize the sentence

you can't say it but otherwise you don't need to say it so it's easier.

You just say the verb conjugated in the first person, I, here.

And here you see the dictionary form of the verb watch

izlemek

watch

izlemek

watch.

And notice this, the dictionary form has mek

mek.

You take it out and you only leave izle, izle, okay?

And after that you add the suffixes to the verb.

There are rules to that but for now just remember it like that.

The logic is take the mek out of the dictionary form and then add suffixes.

Let's see the other examples

yapıyorum

I'm doing

yapıyorum.

And the dictionary form is "yapmak"

do, make

yapmak.

Here again we have this time mak

take it out

mek

take it out.

The dictionary form you have to take it out the mek and the mak then add the suffixes.

Let's see the other example

okuyorum

I'm reading

okuyorum.

And let's look at the dictionary form okumak

read

okumak

read

okay?

Again you have to take the mak at the end before adding the suffixes.

Let's look at the other example

dinliyorum

I'm listening

dinliyorum.

Again we have mek at the end of the dictionary form

dinlemek

listen

take it out, the mek you have to take it out, ok?

The next one is

temizliyorum

I'm cleaning,

ok?

And the dictionary form is temizlemek

temizlemek

clean.

And again you can find the mek at the end to take it out, ok?

içiyorum

I'm drinking

içiyorum

I'm drinking.

And the dictionary form is içmek

drink

içmek.

The next one is geliyorum

geliyorum

I'm coming

geliyorum.

And the dictionary form we see here gelmek

you can see the ending here, see?

Mek, mak, mak, mek, mek, mek, mek, mek, mak

take the mek and mak off the dictionary form before adding any suffix.

So, geliyorum, I'm coming, gelmek, come.

let's see another one

yürüyorum,

I'm walking

yürüyorum

yürümek

walk

ok?

The next one is veriyorum

veriyorum

I'm giving

veriyorum

ok?

And the dictionary form is vermek

vermek

give.

And the last one here is konuşuyorum

konuşuyorum

I'm speaking or I'm talking

there is no difference in Turkish, speaking, talking, ok?

Konuşuyorum

and the dictionary form is konuşmak, ok?

speak or talk, konuşmak

And again, you have to take the mak at the end of the dictionary form

before adding any suffix, ok?

Ok, next you are going to hear two friends talking over the phone

and I'm going to read the dialogue

and I'm going to read it

and I want you to notice the words we just discussed in this part, ok?

Let's see the dialogue.

Here, ne yopıyorsun?

Let me show it to you.

Ne yopıyorsun?

Televizyon izliyorum.

One more time, this time I will read it slower.

Ne yopıyorsun?

Televizyon izliyorum.

Ok, did you guys catch the verb?

Did you guys catch it?

Yes, we have it here.

İzliyorum.

I'm watching.

İzliyorum.

And did you guys notice something else?

In English, we first have object, I, verb, watching.

I'm sorry, subject, I, verb and object.

Subject, verb, object.

But in Turkish, it is a little bit different.

We have the object first, televizyon, verb, later.

İzliyorum.

Televizyon izliyorum.

Object, verb, ok?

Let's see the pattern here.

We first have the object, then we have the verb.

And don't forget, the verb is conjugated not only in the tense, ok?

But also the pronoun, the subject.

We have ben, I in this verb, ok?

This is, I am watching.

This says, I am watching without the say, I.

Because we have the suffix, states that, ok?

So, it's a little bit different.

And what about the question?

Did you catch the verb we just studied here?

Yes, yopıyorsun.

The verb here, yapmak.

yapmak, of course this is a question and it is asking, what are you doing?

You, not I, you.

Because it is talking about you.

The conjugation is different here.

Ne? Yopıyorsun.

What are you doing?

okay

And again, here you will see object, ne?

Verb, yopıyorsun.

Object and verb, ok?

Ok, let's see two more examples.

We have two different examples here.

Kitop okuyorum.

I'm reading a book.

Here, you will see the verbs in red.

Okuyorum.

Do you remember the dictionary form of okuyorum?

It is okumak.

Kitop okuyorum.

Object, verb.

Let's see the other example.

Müzik dinliyorum.

I'm listening to music.

Müzik dinliyorum.

Do you remember the dictionary form of dinliyorum?

Let's see here.

Dinliyorum.

Dillemek.

And again, we have object, verb.

Müzik dinliyorum.

I'm listening to music.

Ok, you saw the examples and let's go over the sentence pattern one more time.

As you can see, first we have the object, then we have the verb, ok?

And in Turkish, everything is in the verb.

The tenses, the negatives, the questions, the pronouns we add to the verb.

And as I explained before

we have to take out the mak and the mek part from the dictionary form of the verb.

And as a side note

Turkish sentence structure is not as determined as in English for example.

You can change the places of the verb, object.

If you want to add the subject to it, you can change it.

And the other things you can mix and match.

But for now, let's keep it at the side.

It's a different subject.

For now, we just see this is the basic pattern, ok?

First the object, then the verb in the conjugated form.

A fun fact, in Turkey

people can ask you what are you doing even in like business meetings.

And Turkish people can ask you very personal questions.

Ok, what were you doing? What are you doing? What are you watching?

Where are you going? What are you talking? What were you drinking? Things like that.

And don't take it personal.

This is how we show that we see you and we are interested in your life.

Like we want to know what you are doing

and we can even ask about your kids, your spouses, your parents, your family.

And that's ok. That's very Turkish.

So don't get offended and you can answer as much as you want.

And when you are answering, you can use our verbs here, ok?

You can say I'm drinking this, I'm doing that, I'm cleaning the house.

We have all the verbs here for you.

Not all the verbs, but a lot of verbs. Ok!

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