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Arabic Turkish Verb Conjugations
Complete conjugation tables for the 20 most essential Turkish verbs. Turkish is an agglutinative language — verb forms are built by stacking suffixes onto the verb stem, all governed by vowel harmony. Each verb includes present continuous, aorist, past, future, negative, and imperative forms with example sentences.
How Turkish Verb Conjugation Works
Turkish is a Turkic language with a remarkably regular agglutinative grammar. Verbs are conjugated by adding suffixes to the verb stem in a specific order: stem + negation + tense marker + personal ending.
The key principle is vowel harmony — suffixes change their vowels to match the last vowel of the stem:
- Front vowels (e, i, ö, ü) take front-vowel suffixes
- Back vowels (a, ı, o, u) take back-vowel suffixes
For example, the future suffix is -ecek (front) or -acak (back): gel-ecek (will come) vs. yap-acak (will do).
Other important features:
- No grammatical gender — "o" means he, she, and it
- Negation uses -me/-ma inserted before the tense marker
- Question particle "mi/mı/mu/mü" follows vowel harmony
- Consonant mutations — some final consonants soften before vowels (t→d, k→ğ, ç→c, p→b)
Tenses Covered
Şimdiki Zaman (-yor)
Present continuous — actions happening now
Geniş Zaman (-r/-ar/-er)
Aorist / Simple present — habits and general truths
Geçmiş Zaman (-di/-dı)
Past definite — witnessed past actions
Gelecek Zaman (-ecek/-acak)
Future — actions that will happen
Olumsuz (-m(i)yor)
Negative present continuous — "is not doing"
Emir (Imperative)
Commands for sen (informal) and siz (formal)
Irregular / Auxiliary Verbs (2)
High-frequency verbs with special patterns.
Transitive Verbs (12)
Verbs that take a direct object.
Intransitive Verbs (6)
Verbs that do not take a direct object — motion, position, and state verbs.