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A2 Turkish Grammar Lessons

B1 Turkish Grammar Lessons

Reported Speech

Reported speech in Turkish is formed with nominalized clauses using –DIK and –AcAK.

Relative Clauses I

Relative clauses are formed with participles –(y)An and –DIK.

Relative Clauses II

Relative clauses may take case marking and function as full noun phrases.

Verbal Nouns: –mAk vs –mA

Turkish uses –mAk and –mA to express actions as nouns.

Nominalized clauses function as subjects and objects in sentences.

Nominalized clauses function as subjects and objects in sentences.

Conditional Mood (–sA)

The conditional suffix –sA expresses real and general conditions.

Unreal Conditionals

Unreal conditions are expressed with past reference and conditional forms.

Passive Voice

Passive forms background or remove the agent of the verb.

Causative Voice

Causative forms express that an action is caused by another participant.

Compound Tenses I

Compound tenses combine past reference with aspectual meaning.

Compound Tenses II

Future-in-the-past forms express unrealized or reported future events.

Adverbial Clauses

Adverbial clauses express time, sequence, and reason relations.

Purpose and Reason Clauses

Purpose and reason relations are expressed through clause structures.

Evidential Nuance (–miş)

The suffix –miş expresses indirect evidence and speaker stance.

Modality Review

Modal forms express necessity, possibility, and obligation.

Information Structure

Word order encodes topic and focus relations in Turkish.

Lexical Aspect

Lexical aspect describes event types and aspectual meaning.

Discourse Connectors

Discourse connectors express cause, contrast, and continuation.

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