The MOST IMPORTANT Turkish Lesson | Turkish Suffixes 🇹🇷
In this video you will get the most valuable Turkish Lesson you will ever find. And I'm not exaggerating. It is so because to understand the logic of Turkish you have to understand how the suffixes in Turkish work. That's the main difference to most languages out there. That's why I'm calling it the most important Turkish lesson because by the end of this video you will understand the Turkish suffixes and thus the mentality and logic of the Turkish language.
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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.
Why you learning turkhis
Also works with Efe Paşa çok hasta.
Thanks, very easy to memorise.
Ana dilim Türkçe olmasına rağmen izliyorum. Videoların çok iyi.
Τι να πω!!! τα εξηγείτε τέλεια!!!!Ευχαριστώ πολύ!!!!
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.
I did not know that Zulu is also an agglutinating language.
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.
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.
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.
I wanted to write exactly the same comment, thanks you did it for me!
Somehow the suffices SOUND RIGHT when the rule are followed. For instance, arabada sounds better than arabade, isn't it?
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.
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
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
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 🙏
Greetings from Hungary, where we also do vowel harmonization, and suffixes starting with consonants often turn into the last consonant of the preceding word! :)
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
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 I love the Hungarian examples. English speakers will have difficulties.
Very methodical teaching. Great job.
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! 😁☺️
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
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 😄
Bende de olay aynı.
How about u giving me some private lessons?
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!
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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
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.
Very helpful, Reşat, teşekerler!
Oh my gosh, I finally found someone who explained it in a easy understandable way. Mashallah! 🙌🏻
Çok sağol, Reşat! öğrenmemi kolaylaştırdın.
Gosh. Your English is perfect. No errors at all.
Beautiful explanation. Allah razı olsun bro.
Your explanation is so awesome and attractive🙂
Thank you for your lectures
Best Turkish teacher ever. Çok teşekkür ederim!
Brilliant explanation, thank you so much!
Really appreciate for your efforts to make this video..thank you so much means a lot 👍
Really high quality content, these have been very helpful! I have a bunch of usseful notes now, thanks!
Thank you so much for this video! Love your teaching 💯❤️
Love this channel👍🏼
Çok teşekkürler!!!
Amazing this is so proefssional and very comprehensive.
This is the most helpful video I have watched about the Turkish language, thank you so much. ❤
Too good teaching Reşat. Excellent explanations with examples. so easy to understand. Çok teşşukr ederim
Damn! Well explained! Congratulations, you are amazing at what you do.
Wow! You are an amazing teacher
You are an awesome teacher!
Çok teşekkürler hocam
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 😃
This was so cool! I got all the answers right too. Thanks man!
This really helps in my understanding of Turkish. Thanks
OMG!!!! Amazing video!!! Thank you so much! It is the best video showing the logic of the Turkish language!!!!! I understood everything!
oh thanks a lot, it really helped me, you explained it sooo sooo clearly & its easy for me to understand
Thanks an ocean! The way you present lessons is fabulous. You do it in a very organised, understandable way. 👍👍👍
You explain clearly. Thank you.
So nice structured. Thanks🙃
These are great! More lessons on suffixes and verbs please! Tesekur ederim!
This was very interesting. While I will watch your videos as they are published. Teşekkürler
Thanks for helping !
This helps clear some concept for me thanks a lot!
Probably the best explanation of the concept I've read or seen. Bravo
I love your videos. The way you present them I can actually stay interested and really learn. Please dont stop making videos 😝
YOU ARE A GREAT TEACHER !!
Rez your presentation & articulation is tops! Clear & easy to follow👌teşekkür ederim fr😊🇳🇱
This explanation was amazing!! You are really a talented teacher ❤
Thanks. God bless you
Merhaba hocam. This lesson is so so good. Çok harika. Teşekkür ederim hocam.
I'm just starting with the language , but what you have said certainly makes things much clearer , tesekkuler 👍
Tks for that lesson
Wallahy i understood this in simple way..alhmdulillah much love
That’s amazing!!!!
Thank you!
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.
I ❤ the video. Keep the good higher bro❤❤❤
I learn so much from your videos. Can you please continue to teach Turkish to us?
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!
Very well explained! Tessekür edrim!
Hello! I think you're learning Turkish, I can help you if you want!
Excellent!!!
thank you!!
Super helpful!
It was so useful😍
The best video thanks
¡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.
Amazing ..you are really great bro .. Thank you for making it easy and interesting to know these rules and pronounciation ❤❤💯
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
Very good content çok iyi içerik
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!
Çok iyi anlatılmış.
super helpful!
Excellent explanation! #mindblown
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).
As a native Kazakh speaker I'm lucky when I learning Turkish. Hence grammar, rules and a lot of words are very similar to the Kazak language. The author make great work and easily explained for foreigners. 👍 🇰🇿❤️🇹🇷 meraba kardashlarim
İngilizce öğretmenliği hazırlık öğrencisiyim hem konuştuklarınızı anlıyorum hem de anlatım tarzınızı beğeniyorum özellikle Türkçe ile ilgili videolarınız ilgimi çekiyor fablbda
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😁
Omg, it was so extremely useful for me! Thank you! I am actually at my 2nd day of the Turkish learning jorney, immediately subscribed! 👍🏽
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.
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Super helpful video.
Thank you Arkadas
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.
I didn't understand anything.😭
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)
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Kitapta Masada Odada Dolapta Sepette Thank you really much Reşat for breaking it down in an intuitive way!
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. 🌸😇
It seems hard but I would leaen with the your comprehensive classes ....Keep it up Bro ....
Brilliant ! :)
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
thank you
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.
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 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.
@@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)
@@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 KZhead 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.
@@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
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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 ! 😁
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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 ☺
Hi i am native turkish speaker you can ask to me about our language what you wonder