Turkish grammar
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Turkish is a highly agglutinative language, ie., Turkish words have many grammatical suffixes or endings that
determine meaning. Turkish vowels undergo vowel harmony. When a suffix is attached to a stem, the vowel
in the suffix agrees in frontness or backness and in roundedness with the last vowel in the stem. Turkish has
no gender
Contents
1 Introduction
= 11 Suffixes
= 12 Gender
= 13 Person
= 13.1 T-V distinction
= 13.2 Honotifies
= 1.4 Turkish terminology
2 Parts of speech,
3 Word-order
4 Inflexional suffixes
5 Nouns
= 5.1 Inflexion
= 5.1.1 Number
= 5.1.2 Possession
= 5.13 Case
= 5.1.4 Predication
= 5.2 Verbal nouns
= 53 Auxiliary verbs
6 Adjectives
= 6.1 Use
= 6.2 Descriptive adjectives
= 63 Indefinite adjectives
= 6.4 Participles
7 Adverbs
8 Pronouns
9 Verbs
= 9.1 Copula
= 9.2 Stems of verbs
= 9.2.1 Verb-stems from nouns
= 9.2.2 Voice
= 9.23 Negation and potential in verb-stems
9.3 Bases of verbs
9.4 Questions
9.5 Optative and imperative moods
9.6 The defective verb i-
9.7 Compound bases
= 10 Notes