The MOST IMPORTANT Turkish Lesson | Turkish Suffixes 🇹🇷

[@nontandobooi9776]

I found it very interesting when I learned that Turkish, like Zulu, says 'baba' for 'father' and even 'babam' for 'my father' (baba'm, in Zulu) and that it is also an agglutinating language. This aspect of being an agglutinating language made a whole lot of a difference for me as it became easy to understand this critical part of the Turkish language. We do the exact same thing in Zulu. We attach suffixes and prefixes to verbs and nouns to express meaning. I also like that you too have different terms for familial relations, eg., maternal and paternal uncles and aunts etc. We do the same in Zulu. Video için teşekkür ederim.

[@GladysMokgatle]

I did not know that Zulu is also an agglutinating language.

[@buztuz6206]

That is great to know . Thanks

[@lotuswinter9047]

When we were learning this stuff at Turkish language class in elementary school, our teacher made us learn "P Ç T K" thing with a word which is "Ketçap". It means ketchup in English and if you take the vowels inside of the word ketçap, you will realize that the consonants that this word have is all "P Ç T K" words.

[@yunusemrecnar6713]

Why you learning turkhis

[@fredericgillet1916]

Also works with Efe Paşa çok hasta.

[@marieanne2638]

Thanks, very easy to memorise.

[@ben10theorist]

Ana dilim Türkçe olmasına rağmen izliyorum. Videoların çok iyi.

[@anacano4006]

Estoy totalmente de acuerdo, yo soy española no entiendo mucho inglés y me atrapa...habla lento con firmeza explicando toda la gramática genial.

[@raaluvaaa]

you are the ONE and ONLY in teaching Turkish , I've watched a lot of videos not a single person explain it like you do it

[@bonitamuse7179]

Hey Reş! Your channel is a treasure hunt for me.Every video is a gem. It's not easy to deliver grammar but please bare with us. Watching ur videos I learn Turkish + English+general knowledge about other languages.I don't miss any. The " shorts" crack me up with LOL! You make heavy knowledge easy 2 digest because u r "zehir gibi" smart & talented + deep voice makes u fully equipped for what u deliver on this platform for a vast & variant audience" Nazar boncuk" Reş, keep rocketing up🚀

Thanks so much! 😁☺️

[@marisolvillanueva196]

You’re amazing! I was about to give up; Turkish seemed too hard. Good thing I found your channel 👏🏼 Love this beautiful language and I will give it my best to master it! Thank you! You make it look possible 🙏

[@Cosmic_Love]

Phonetically, AIOU are back vowels and EİÖÜ are front vowels. Again, the hard consonants in Turkish are called voiceless consonants in phonetics, while the soft ones are called voiced consonants.

[@berkeleyrc]

I think this is really helpful to think about! It's not so much that we need to memorize which kind of consonant the word ends with, more just that if it ends with an unvoiced consonant then the suffix should be unvoiced, and if it ends with a voiced consonant then the suffix should be voiced.

[@alianna8806]

Yes I noticed that with the consonants as well! It just makes sense and sounds better to change, it rolls off the tongue naturally. I think we do this a bit in English with the -ed suffix. It would depend on dialect but it can sound like both a T or a D and I would have to think about if it is harmonizing with the ending of the word. We just don't write it out phonetically.

[@iraman315]

I wanted to write exactly the same comment, thanks you did it for me!

[@GladysMokgatle]

Somehow the suffices SOUND RIGHT when the rule are followed. For instance, arabada sounds better than arabade, isn't it?

[@elliterzaki8741]

Τι να πω!!! τα εξηγείτε τέλεια!!!!Ευχαριστώ πολύ!!!!

[@levryntsk4833]

Honestly, I watch a lot of videos trying to learn Turkish, but your videos help the most. You are explaining so well and making it easy to catch the logic. Thanks!

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@hlenabydarkestrock09]

Oh my gosh, I finally found someone who explained it in a easy understandable way. Mashallah! 🙌🏻

[@pianobear7491]

Greetings from Hungary, where we also do vowel harmonization, and suffixes starting with consonants often turn into the last consonant of the preceding word! :)

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

Turkish-Hungarian-English (titled video in my channel) szakállam van.= sakalım var = i have beard szakállad van = sakalın var = you have beard szakálla van.= sakalı var =he has beard nincs telefonom = telefonum yok = i do not have phone

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

Vowel harmony is here to speak faster and so tongue do not gets tired because keeps its place. 2 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (A,E) (keeping toung back or front) when you add suffix with open vowel (a , e ) , (such as plural suffix= -lar,-ler) if last letter of word is back vowel (a ı o u) then suffix with open vowel will have " a " if last letter of word is front vowel (e i ö ü ) then suffix with open vowel will have " e " example: ler / lar = plural suffix Türkler= Turks Doktorlar =Doctors ********************************* 4 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (I, İ, U, Ü) (pronouncing closed version of last vowel) when you add suffix with closed vowel (ı i u ü) (such as subject suffixes) then, suffix will be closed version of last vowel, you do not have to think about which vowel to add because without changing your mouth shape (back-front and rounded-unrounded shapes) just closing your mouth a little will make sound of last vowel's closed version. for example if you close your mouth a little as you are pronouncing "a" it will sound " ı ", " o " will be " u " " ö " will be " ü " " e " will be " i " so if last vowel of the word is " a " or " ı " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ı " " e " or " i " then suffix with closed vowel will have " i " " o " or " u " then suffix with closed vowel will have " u " " ö " or " ü " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ü " example: sen=you, suffix form of sen is with closed vowels “ sın, sin, sun, sün Nasıl = how Nasılsın? = how are you? Türksün= You are Turk Doktorsun= You are doctor İyi=good İyisin= You are good ******************************** VOWELS A=toung is at back, chin is wide open, lips shape straight. I =(close chin as you are pronouncing A) tongue is at back, lips shape is straight, chin is nearly closed, O=tongue is at back, chin is open, lips are rounded (round lips as you are pronouncing a) U=(close your chin as you are pronouncing o), tongue is at back, chin is nearly closed, lips are rounded. E=tongue is at front. Chin is open, lips are straight. İ=(close your lips as you are pronouncing e) tongue is at front, lips are straight, chin is nearly closed. Ö=tongue is at front, chin is open, lips are rounded (round lips as you are pronouncing e) Ü=(close chin as you are pronouncing Ö) tongue is at front , lips are rounded, chin is nearly close

[@GladysMokgatle]

@@PimsleurTurkishLessons I love the Hungarian examples. English speakers will have difficulties.

[@YummYakitori]

Very similar to how Uralic languages work eg Hungarian and Finnish; suffixes are attached behind a word to modify the meaning. Vowel harmony (soft & hard vowels) are also a common feature in Uralic languages

[@GladysMokgatle]

Yes, I am Hungarian and we have similar rules. I just go by how they sound, and the only way they sound right if the rules are followed. In Hungarian these rules are called "mássalhangzók hasonulása" ) my fellow Hungarians will understand this.

[@DanaPiscoi]

This is amazing work! As a language teacher and a constant student I highly appreciate your videos. I speak 6 languages fluently but Turkish is soooo different than all of them. I got so excited to learn Turkish and rewire my brain to do so.

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

Vowel harmony is here to speak faster and so tongue do not gets tired because keeps its place. 2 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (A,E) (keeping toung back or front) when you add suffix with open vowel (a , e ) , (such as plural suffix= -lar,-ler) if last letter of word is back vowel (a ı o u) then suffix with open vowel will have " a " if last letter of word is front vowel (e i ö ü ) then suffix with open vowel will have " e " example: ler / lar = plural suffix Türkler= Turks Doktorlar =Doctors ********************************* 4 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (I, İ, U, Ü) (pronouncing closed version of last vowel) when you add suffix with closed vowel (ı i u ü) (such as subject suffixes) then, suffix will be closed version of last vowel, you do not have to think about which vowel to add because without changing your mouth shape (back-front and rounded-unrounded shapes) just closing your mouth a little will make sound of last vowel's closed version. for example if you close your mouth a little as you are pronouncing "a" it will sound " ı ", " o " will be " u " " ö " will be " ü " " e " will be " i " so if last vowel of the word is " a " or " ı " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ı " " e " or " i " then suffix with closed vowel will have " i " " o " or " u " then suffix with closed vowel will have " u " " ö " or " ü " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ü " example: sen=you, suffix form of sen is with closed vowels “ sın, sin, sun, sün Nasıl = how Nasılsın? = how are you? Türksün= You are Turk Doktorsun= You are doctor İyi=good İyisin= You are good ******************************** VOWELS A=toung is at back, chin is wide open, lips shape straight. I =(close chin as you are pronouncing A) tongue is at back, lips shape is straight, chin is nearly closed, O=tongue is at back, chin is open, lips are rounded (round lips as you are pronouncing a) U=(close your chin as you are pronouncing o), tongue is at back, chin is nearly closed, lips are rounded. E=tongue is at front. Chin is open, lips are straight. İ=(close your lips as you are pronouncing e) tongue is at front, lips are straight, chin is nearly closed. Ö=tongue is at front, chin is open, lips are rounded (round lips as you are pronouncing e) Ü=(close chin as you are pronouncing Ö) tongue is at front , lips are rounded, chin is nearly close.

[@wafikiri_]

@@PimsleurTurkishLessons I have to disagree with your view that vowel harmony lets one speak faster. It doesn't. It's just that you Turkish people are not used to other ways. For instance, in Spanish, diphthongs and triphthongs are usual and so fast that they last the same as just one vowel even though they combine two or three, respectively. Both require that a weak vowel (i or u) accompanies a hard one (a, e or o) if present, otherwise each vowel will have the usual duration and there will be no diphthong or triphthong; for instance, real (re-al), but diana (dia-na), ciudad (ciu-dad). Just a question of what you are used to. There are people that always speak very fast, others, very slow, others in between. I fall on the slow side.

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

@@wafikiri_ yes possible because, in some local speech of Turkish in some cities, they do not obey vowel harmony but they use different same speech style. they can speak fast too.when, i mimic them, my mouth gets tired. But Also; spanish is not agglutinative so it does not get too much suffixes. So it is not hard to speak without vowel harmony. i can speak English without vowel harmony. for example; gözlerimizle göremediklerimizi yüreklerimizle bilebiliriz= we can know with our hearts about those that we can not see with our eyes. podemos saber con nuestro corazón acerca de aquellos que no podemos ver con nuestros ojos (google translate from English to Spanish)

[@wafikiri_]

@@PimsleurTurkishLessons @Turkish Lessons Your example sentence was not too difficult for me even before I read those translations, in spite that my knowledge of Turkish only dates one month. I could take apart göz, görmek, -ler, bilmek, -ebilir, -le (ile), -i, yürek (I knew yüreğim), negative -me, -iz but was a bit confused seeing -im-iz, is it -(i)miz? And -dik, I don't know, it could be past tense -di and 2nd. person plural -k (biz). Surely I'm wrong on something else too. Agglutinative only means words united together, surely they were independent in some antecessor language of Turkish. But isolated words sound agglutinated when spoken normally. No problem there. Google translation to Spanish was perfect. Edit: I see KZbin has underlined something, omitted something, perhaps by my using hyphens (-). I did not intentionally underline anything. I think I've restored it. Oh, and thank you for your videos and for your soon reply. Very good job.

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

@@wafikiri_ Thank you. You seem very good at Turkish, ne zamandır Türkçe öğreniyorsunuz? In Turkish , suffixes are only functional such as A verb, can take suffixes to show, "tense, negativity, pronoun, passive voice,ability, must, command, if, wish ( i mean "let me, lets"",). A noun can take suffixes to show "plural, genetive/possesive, dative, locative, accusative (the) , ablative," ----------------- adjective, adverb, verb and object are different words of a Turkish sentence. syntax can change, (only adjective must be before noun, and indefinite object must be before verb ) , if syntax changes it changes emphasised word of the sentence. but suffix order can not change, if it changes then meaning changes example; çiçekleri sulamasaydın, çiçekler çürürdü. =If you didn't water the flowers, the flowers would rot. çiçekleri sulamadıysan, sula.= If you have not watered the flowers, water them . sa=if, dı=past tense, n= you sulama-saydın ; conditional suffix is before past tense (Past Unreality) sulama-dıysan ; conditional suffix is after past tense (Past Reality

[@mellihahussayn2039]

Thank you so much. I have really struggled with these de da te ta. It’s really scared me from learning and you have just broken it down to the basics in a simple way. I have rewatched the video a lot. I have lost a big fear of the language. Stay blessed

[@Arafat_Abid]

Your explanation is so awesome and attractive🙂

[@esma_55]

Best Turkish teacher ever. Çok teşekkür ederim!

[@mdheartofzen]

Resat you provided me with my introduction to the Turkish language. I have acquired at lot of knowledge concerning it but have a long way to go! For a beginner like myself this video is invaluable to me but spoken too quickly for me to comprehend without listening over and over as I do but its hard to write down the information. I wish you wrote a book about learning Turkish the same way you teach on your channel. Obviously I have to get some textbooks and other platforms of learning,etc. Ik their are many but your channel is one I will never give up...Thank you ❤ compliment

[@subliminalsandwiches1112]

Thank you so much. I recently learned about the hard and soft vowels etc (I'm taking the Turkish course on Babbel) but your video makes things much more clear now and I will spend some time memorizing these. Someone below said that you make it easy to catch the logic and I agree. Great video!

[@lisaflint7027]

I wish there was a video like yours when I was learning Turkish! I started learning Turkish from a book that was distributed for diplomats, which was much better and easier to learn from than what was out at the time for the general public. But the best way to learn for me was visiting Turkey twice in one year. I've been told that I have excellent pronunciation, but I've not had formal grammar lessons, and struggled to form sentences (Tarzan Turkce!) so this helps a lot. Also, watching these video's helps me to keep from forgetting how to speak Turkish since I'm not getting a chance to speak it on a regular basis anymore. Keep those videos coming!

[@nergis80]

Bir de bunun fiil çekimleri var. Biz içine doğduğumuz için fark edemiyoruz fakat en çok biçimbirime sahip bir dil Türkçe. Çok faydalı bir video lütfen devamı gelsin. Türkçe öğretmeni olarak izliyorum. Farkındalık sağlıyor. Teşekkürler. 🌸😇

[@KhadijaGulKhadijaGul-cu2rz]

Just love it and grateful to learn with you🎉❤

[@JayOz1]

Amazing video! You are explaining these grammar concepts really well Resat! Thank you for all your effort. I am Half Turkish, born in South Africa so never really got to learn Turkish. Your videos are helping me now on my journey to learn.

[@aminaawad3301]

Thanks God your English is amazing and your comparison between Turkish and English makes your lesson interesting and easy thank you for your effort

[@kojayeoja]

If you know anything about linguistics then this isn't hard or confusing at all, it's actually super easy and logical! It's just voicing/voiceless assimilation and vowel harmony. I think saying "soft/hard" is actually more confusing because some people might think that voiced consonants sound "harder" than voiceless consonants. As a linguist who loves to learn languages, it makes my life (and will make yours) SO MUCH EASIER! Seriously, get a textbook on Intro to Linguistics or take a class, or at least learn IPA. You will understand the logic and see the patterns in language so much more clearly. Each language is its own song, and you can sit there with a new song and try to painfully memorize each note and how they go together, or you can just learn how to read music and play any new song easily. That's what learning about linguistics will do for you. But yeah, this is why I love Turkish (and Turkic languages) because the agglutination and balanced phonology is so satisfying. It's actually a super logical and straightforward language (at least from what I can see as a beginner).

[@simratmann4323]

Çok çok teşekkür ederim!! .What else can be better than this . U clarified all my doubts😄😃 U explained every single detail so well. Really feels like you're sitting and teaching right in front me . I was so absorbed into it ! 😁

☺️☺️

[@ВікторіяСидорова-о8м]

OMG!!!! Amazing video!!! Thank you so much! It is the best video showing the logic of the Turkish language!!!!! I understood everything!

[@sandividendo5708]

Well done! Even native Turkish speakers would have a lot to learn from this video. A well deserved score of 99.9 Why not a 100.0? Because : "Tarak Comb", and, "Brush Fırça"

[@eniseasar2]

X:hey you know turkish, right? Me: yes I do X: then why you are watching this video? Me: I don't know🤔

Because you’re amazing 😄

[@ben10theorist]

Bende de olay aynı.

[@zemrajot]

How about u giving me some private lessons?

[@sabade]

Sanırım İngilizce ders videoları dışında bu videolara daha çok bayılıyorum. Dinlerken anlayabiliyorum (tabikii alt yazı açık şekilde kejxidkdj) hem en azından biraz Türkçe bilgim de gelişiyor sjdhekjdjdiejd

[@carolinajimenez3952]

Really thank you .It is an amazing information I'm native Spanish speaker .I don't know but It makes nuts sometimes about suffixes, please keep it going ,you know how to explain it really well I hope you can make more videos like this I can't wait .I'm living in Istambul now so I need to understand ,çok tessekuler ☺

[@ismailisler754]

Hi i am native turkish speaker you can ask to me about our language what you wonder

[@notadane]

Very methodical teaching. Great job.

[@lem6444]

Thanks an ocean! The way you present lessons is fabulous. You do it in a very organised, understandable way. 👍👍👍

[@sandraholder6311]

This really helps in my understanding of Turkish. Thanks

[@RLL-ty3uo]

This explanation was amazing!! You are really a talented teacher ❤

[@Theflounicorn]

I love your pronunciation in English. I think you're the only Türk I know6, who speaks English so good and this makes it a lot easier to listen and comprehend the lessons. More Turkish lessons, please! I'm addicted to the language and I'm in love with İstanbul (I have a tattoo of the city on my my arm 💜)

[@JustaFrog1241]

Hello, I would love to help you learn Turkish. I really need a native English speaker to be able to speak fluently. Please, let me know if you are willing to learn Turkish.

[@burakcan4330]

I just checked your page, you really love İstanbul more than us :)

[@vanessas2454]

I don´t find the consonants difficult as they merely follow the principle of assimilation. It is hard to pronounce a soft, voiced consontant after a hard, voiceless one, and vice versa, so the assimilation comes naturally. The vowel harmony is a bit harder, and the hardest thing is not necessarily forming these suffixes according to the pattern but to identify suffixes in reading as they can take so many different shapes. Many times already, I have wondered about a new word I came across, only to discover it was a word I already new, only with a new ending this time, or with a chain of endings, in which I couldn´t tell what was part of the word and what was part of which ending.

[@senab9454]

İngilizce öğretmenliği hazırlık öğrencisiyim hem konuştuklarınızı anlıyorum hem de anlatım tarzınızı beğeniyorum özellikle Türkçe ile ilgili videolarınız ilgimi çekiyor fablbda

[@shortcake420]

Thank you so much for this video! Love your teaching 💯❤️

[@lauratrevizo8980]

I love your explanation, i had asked some turks why some words en in da, de, ta or te but they didn't know exactly how to explain it to me. I appreciate your help so much.

[@cowcolalover420]

I didn't understand anything.😭

[@sarihanovic]

Şimdi bunu ingilizce konuşmaktan yorulduğum tüm arkadaşlarıma göndericem 😌 teşekkürler 😂

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

Vowel harmony is here to speak faster and so tongue do not gets tired because keeps its place. 2 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (A,E) (keeping toung back or front) when you add suffix with open vowel (a , e ) , (such as plural suffix= -lar,-ler) if last letter of word is back vowel (a ı o u) then suffix with open vowel will have " a " if last letter of word is front vowel (e i ö ü ) then suffix with open vowel will have " e " example: ler / lar = plural suffix Türkler= Turks Doktorlar =Doctors ********************************* 4 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (I, İ, U, Ü) (pronouncing closed version of last vowel) when you add suffix with closed vowel (ı i u ü) (such as subject suffixes) then, suffix will be closed version of last vowel, you do not have to think about which vowel to add because without changing your mouth shape (back-front and rounded-unrounded shapes) just closing your mouth a little will make sound of last vowel's closed version. for example if you close your mouth a little as you are pronouncing "a" it will sound " ı ", " o " will be " u " " ö " will be " ü " " e " will be " i " so if last vowel of the word is " a " or " ı " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ı " " e " or " i " then suffix with closed vowel will have " i " " o " or " u " then suffix with closed vowel will have " u " " ö " or " ü " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ü " example: sen=you, suffix form of sen is with closed vowels “ sın, sin, sun, sün Nasıl = how Nasılsın? = how are you? Türksün= You are Turk Doktorsun= You are doctor İyi=good İyisin= You are good ******************************** VOWELS A=toung is at back, chin is wide open, lips shape straight. I =(close chin as you are pronouncing A) tongue is at back, lips shape is straight, chin is nearly closed, O=tongue is at back, chin is open, lips are rounded (round lips as you are pronouncing a) U=(close your chin as you are pronouncing o), tongue is at back, chin is nearly closed, lips are rounded. E=tongue is at front. Chin is open, lips are straight. İ=(close your lips as you are pronouncing e) tongue is at front, lips are straight, chin is nearly closed. Ö=tongue is at front, chin is open, lips are rounded (round lips as you are pronouncing e) Ü=(close chin as you are pronouncing Ö) tongue is at front , lips are rounded, chin is nearly close

[@KeithLangOnline]

Probably the best explanation of the concept I've read or seen. Bravo

[@ashauniverse2244]

Omg, it was so extremely useful for me! Thank you! I am actually at my 2nd day of the Turkish learning jorney, immediately subscribed! 👍🏽

[@JustaFrog1241]

Hello, I would love to help you learn Turkish. I really need a native English speaker to be able to speak fluently. Please, let me know if you are willing to learn Turkish.

[@shalinfakih8370]

Too good teaching Reşat. Excellent explanations with examples. so easy to understand. Çok teşşukr ederim

[@shemsamohd5414]

Wallahy i understood this in simple way..alhmdulillah much love

[@heidibabb1793]

Gosh. Your English is perfect. No errors at all.

[@bernadettecebedo6057]

Rez your presentation & articulation is tops! Clear & easy to follow👌teşekkür ederim fr😊🇳🇱

[@tonywilkes1781]

I'm just starting with the language , but what you have said certainly makes things much clearer , tesekkuler 👍

[@АртемГірман]

Kitapta Masada Odada Dolapta Sepette Thank you really much Reşat for breaking it down in an intuitive way!

[@SarahIbrahem2]

I love your videos. The way you present them I can actually stay interested and really learn. Please dont stop making videos 😝

[@saraemad5227]

This is the most helpful video I have watched about the Turkish language, thank you so much. ❤

[@gabrielagarse851]

Damn! Well explained! Congratulations, you are amazing at what you do.

[@zahooruddinbashir]

Beautiful explanation. Allah razı olsun bro.

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

Merhaba hocam. This lesson is so so good. Çok harika. Teşekkür ederim hocam.

[@smalltarpan]

Wow, the Hungarian equivalents of -de, -da, which is -ben, -ban follow the vowels in the same way. A, Á, O, Ó, U, Ú are followed by -ban. The vowels E, É, I, Í, Ö, Ő, Ü, Ű are followed by -ben.

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

Vowel harmony is here to speak faster and so tongue do not gets tired because keeps its place. 2 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (A,E) (keeping toung back or front) when you add suffix with open vowel (a , e ) , (such as plural suffix= -lar,-ler) if last letter of word is back vowel (a ı o u) then suffix with open vowel will have " a " if last letter of word is front vowel (e i ö ü ) then suffix with open vowel will have " e " example: ler / lar = plural suffix Türkler= Turks Doktorlar =Doctors ********************************* 4 WAY VOWEL HARMONY (I, İ, U, Ü) (pronouncing closed version of last vowel) when you add suffix with closed vowel (ı i u ü) (such as subject suffixes) then, suffix will be closed version of last vowel, you do not have to think about which vowel to add because without changing your mouth shape (back-front and rounded-unrounded shapes) just closing your mouth a little will make sound of last vowel's closed version. for example if you close your mouth a little as you are pronouncing "a" it will sound " ı ", " o " will be " u " " ö " will be " ü " " e " will be " i " so if last vowel of the word is " a " or " ı " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ı " " e " or " i " then suffix with closed vowel will have " i " " o " or " u " then suffix with closed vowel will have " u " " ö " or " ü " then suffix with closed vowel will have " ü " example: sen=you, suffix form of sen is with closed vowels “ sın, sin, sun, sün Nasıl = how Nasılsın? = how are you? Türksün= You are Turk Doktorsun= You are doctor İyi=good İyisin= You are good ******************************** VOWELS A=toung is at back, chin is wide open, lips shape straight. I =(close chin as you are pronouncing A) tongue is at back, lips shape is straight, chin is nearly closed, O=tongue is at back, chin is open, lips are rounded (round lips as you are pronouncing a) U=(close your chin as you are pronouncing o), tongue is at back, chin is nearly closed, lips are rounded. E=tongue is at front. Chin is open, lips are straight. İ=(close your lips as you are pronouncing e) tongue is at front, lips are straight, chin is nearly closed. Ö=tongue is at front, chin is open, lips are rounded (round lips as you are pronouncing e) Ü=(close chin as you are pronouncing Ö) tongue is at front , lips are rounded, chin is nearly close

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

Turkish-Hungarian-English (titled video in my channel) szakállam van.= sakalım var = i have beard szakállad van = sakalın var = you have beard szakálla van.= sakalı var =he has beard nincs telefonom = telefonum yok = i do not have phone

[@buztuz6206]

Which is why we came from the same ancestors

[@user-wk8rz5xd1y]

Love this channel👍🏼

[@BlackDNA1492]

Very helpful, Reşat, teşekerler!

[@jkdog3242]

This is an amazing video! One thing I would suggest in the future, however, is to change the font in the example words to a font that can be differentiated between capital and lowercase letters. I am a native English speaker who speaks German, now learning Turkish. In German, capital letters are present in nouns in nearly all cases (excluding pronouns). I know this is not the case in turkish, but it did give me some pause because of the font.

[@adamaslan1]

These are great! More lessons on suffixes and verbs please! Tesekur ederim!

[@sarahlott4432]

¡Gracias! Muy clara explicación. Ahora estoy más motivada a estudiar. Me recuerda a las reglas de digtongos, trigtongos y hiatos en español. Hay que aprenderlas.

[@ecmasein]

Türkçe altyazı olsa keşke ama yine de videoların çok bilgilendirici

[@christeltrottet7533]

Brilliant explanation, thank you so much!

[@makbasyoutube]

In Turkish, the subjects remain implicited at the end of the drawn verbs. For example, for the 2nd person singular, to say "sen geleceksin(you will come) instead of "geleceksin (you will come) ", which is the future tense of "to come"; It does not produce a meaning other than "subject emphasis". Saying "geleceksin" is sufficient for the 2nd person singular future tense. Because the suffix "sin" at the end of "gelecek-sin" is the subject of "sen(you)" that is implicited. Revealing Implicited Subjects in Turkish: Geleceğim (Gelecek-ben) (I will come) Geleceksin (Gelecek-sen) (you will come) Gelecek (it is 3rd singular and also root at future tense) Geleceğiz (Gelecek-biz) (we will come) Geleceksiniz (gelecek-siz) (you will come) Gelecekler (gelecek-onlar) (they will come) If we use the implicited subjects at the end of Turkish verbs in front, we can do Turkish as in English verb conjugation (I go, you go, we go, they go). And there is no distortion of meaning. This can be a "convenience" for speakers of Western languages. Ben gelecek (I will come) Sen gelecek (you will come) O gelecek (He/she/it will come) Biz gelecek (we will come) Siz gelecek (you will come) Onlar gelecek (they will come)

[@learnurduwithsara1068]

Amazing this is so proefssional and very comprehensive.

[@ceciliaarsy4860]

oh thanks a lot, it really helped me, you explained it sooo sooo clearly & its easy for me to understand

[@alessandrobasso5197]

I wish I could find another word than perfect for this video‘s timing (of upload) and content. You don‘t know how much this video helped me and (hopefully) boosts my turkish learning curve! Does anyone here have a link to some kind of table of all turkish suffixes and prefixes? (edit: question added)

[@rosebrown6128]

In English the same phenomenon happens with the past suffix -ed after some unvoiced consonants that you call hard consonants in Turkish. The -ed is still written but the pronunciation changes to T. eg. watched, washed, passed, capped, laughed ( f sound). (Only coronal T has a different pattern along with D eg. admitted and blended as they change to -id pronunciation instead.) . It’s very logical for English speakers ( and very easy) but Turkish vowel harmony is more unique!

[@grshorwich]

Interesting way of describing vowel harmony. I've heard of a, ı, o and u referred to as back vowels and e, i, ö and ü as front vowels rather than hard and soft vowels. I find front and back more intuitive because they are vocalised in the front/back of the mouth.

[@stanzim7612]

I’m a native English speaker who learned basic Hungarian young. Hungarian adds on suffixes on the end of the word as well which makes me happy because that makes it easier for me to learn 😀

[@tomislavnagy8715]

@Dillendim In European Languages Hungarian, Finish and Estonian, with other Finno-Ugric languages are Agglutinative languages!

[@furkanonal8]

Yes they are. The interesting thing is they all have vowel harmony just like Turkish except Estonian, which I don't know why :)

[@catamongthepigeons6576]

You explain clearly. Thank you.

[@mitrasohbatzade1983]

It was so useful😍

[@farahsmirage5151]

Wow! You are an amazing teacher

[@ΔΕΣΠΟΙΝΑΡΟΥΣΣΟΥ-ρ1ρ]

YOU ARE A GREAT TEACHER !!

[@zahirhussain5913]

Pl spread this peace message: "The Ottamans set such a good example as pacific conquerors that they won the confidence of many former Byzantine subjects . For example , when Nicaea fell , Orhan allowed all who wanted to leave the city to depart freely , taking with them their holy relics , but few availed themselves of the chance . No reprisals were taken against those who had resisted , and the city was left to manage its internal affairs under its own municipal government . BOOK : Encyclopaedia of the Ottoman Empire . AUTHOR : Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters . Edition : 2009 page -109 .

[@maraniebling5097]

I learn so much from your videos. Can you please continue to teach Turkish to us?

[@armitarzn]

I will make it more simple: Dillendim is the best channel to learn Turkish!

[@JustaFrog1241]

Hello, I would love to help you learn Turkish. I really need a native English speaker to be able to speak fluently. Please, let me know if you are willing to learn Turkish.

[@JayFolipurba]

It's so interesting. In English, i is a tense vowel, arguably tense and hard are closely related, while ı is a lax vowel, lax suggesting softness. It's really up to personal perception which vowels are strong/hard/sharp and which ones are weak/soft/dull. Ijust learned that in Finnish, i is neutral

[@yohoabq8]

Doğum günün kutlu olsun Reşad.

[@kayleehunter6447]

You explained so well! It is difficult to understand right away but I'm sure over time it will become second nature. Çok teşekkür ederim 😃

[@cretotar1]

This was very interesting. While I will watch your videos as they are published. Teşekkürler

[@dannygkay9751]

now this is the answer we've been looking for. Resat ,thank you brother! continuing like this i can guarantee that i'll a turkish very soon😂😂😂😂😂😂😁

[@claudiam1905]

Çok sağol, Reşat! öğrenmemi kolaylaştırdın.

[@Anon-hj7il]

This helps clear some concept for me thanks a lot!

[@ruhitakhtar2696]

Very much well explained 👍🏻

[@MukhtarrCorr]

I ❤ the video. Keep the good higher bro❤❤❤

[@ayse-9336]

Türk dili öğrencisi olarak iki kitap önermek istiyorum. Belki videoları hazırlarken yardımcı olur diye düşündüm çünkü tamamen Türkçe ve bu video ile uyumlu. Tahsin Banguoğlu-Türkçenin Grameri Muharrem Ergin-Türk Dil Bilgisi

[@nelidacedano521]

Thank you for your lectures

[@slondiwenxumalo427]

Turkish is more like Nguni languages in Southern Africa we also add a lot of prefixes and suffixes than words in a sentence.

[@zerotactics9949]

This was so cool! I got all the answers right too. Thanks man!

[@pamelamoeng9736]

What is the best Turkish grammar book for a beginner learner? Thank you so much for your clear, interesting and informative videos about the Turkish language.

[@aniekrosmauli7762]

Really appreciate for your efforts to make this video..thank you so much means a lot 👍

[@alexb7596]

You are an awesome teacher!

[@metahmayne]

Thanks for helping !

[@natenatters]

Really high quality content, these have been very helpful! I have a bunch of usseful notes now, thanks!

[@LearnEnglishwithCamille]

Excellent explanation! #mindblown

[@masazavolonte502]

Very nice, teşekkuler! In Flemish we also do the same about the consonants, the last one influences the t or d we add at the end of the past participles. In Polish too, by the way, two following consonants influence each other, sometimes backwards (the last one changing the first one) or forwards (the opposite). Same for vowels. Too long story for an answer here, it deserves also a video. :D Thanks for yours again!

[@angeliki70]

Very well explained! Tessekür edrim!

[@kaan3130]

Hello! I think you're learning Turkish, I can help you if you want!

[@angiec.7315]

You are very good at exolaining, this is the second video in a row I watch from you and I would like to suggest to put more edits about what you are explaining like all this part would have been better understood with more graphic explanation 11:20- 13:13 thank you and keep the good work🩷

[@Tekukuno]

Super helpful!