Turkish Classes in New York

Bugünkü Türkçe ikram - Today's Turkish Treat: When used in question form Geni Zaman/Present Simple Tense might refer to a request. Eg. Masay siler misin?/Could you clean the table? Lütfen pencereyi açar msn?/Can you please open the window? Müziin sesini biraz ksar msn?/Could you turn down the volume a little?... Biraz yava yürür müsün?/Could you walk slowly a bit? Tekrar eder misiniz?/ Can you repeat it? Daha yava konuur musun?/Could you talk slower? See more

Bugünkü Türkçe ikram - Today's Turkish Treat: "art kipi" describes a condition required for an action to happen in the future. The first conditional in English can be considered as the closest equivalent of "art kipi" in Turkish. Eg. Iyi bir i bulursam araba alacam./If I can find a good job, I'll buy a car. Yemek piirmediysen bu akam darda yiyelim/If you haven't cooked, let's eat out tonight. Iinde mutsuzsan neden oradan ayrlmyorsun?/If you are unhappy with your ...job, why don't you leave that place? Eer iimiz erken biterse sinemaya gidebiliriz./If we finish our work early, we can go to the movies See more

Bugünkü Türkçe ikram - Today's Turkish Treat: "imdiki Zamann Hikayesi" is used for describing actions that started happening in the past and continued for a while. In most cases, the action mentioned was either interrupted by a newer action or went on simultaneously with another continuous action. Eg. Telefon çaldnda yemek yapyordum./I was cooking when the phone rang. This tense also functions as the equivalent of 'was/were going to' and describes the actions that did not actually happen but was very likely to happen in the past. Eg. Dün seni aryordum, telefonumun arj bitti./ I was going to call you yesterday but my mobile battery went dead.

Bugünkü Türkçe ikram - Today's Turkish Treat: When listening to Turkish you may noy always notice where a word is stressed, as stress is very light. As a crude rule of thumb you stress the last syllable of a word. The exceptions to this rule are: -names of places (LONdra, ANkara, PORtekiz etc.) -adverbs (SONra, YArn, IMdi etc) -some foreign loan words... -where the last syllable is a form of verb to be (öretmenIM / my teacher - öretMENim / I am a teacher) See more

Bugünkü Türkçe ikram - Today's Turkish Treat: The accusative suffix for nouns can be used commonly a) if there is a definite object w/wo the demonstrative pronouns (Dün kitab okudum/I read the book yesterday - Dün bu kitab okudum/ I read this book yesterday) b) If the object is a proper noun... (Dün Taksim'de Selim'i gördüm/I saw Selim in Taksim Yesterday. c) If the object is used with a possessive (Senin evini almak istiyorum/I want to buy your house. d) If the question word 'who' or 'what' is used as an object (Aye kimi seviyor?/Who does Aye love? - Neyi görmek istiyorsunuz? What do you want to see?) See more