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1 Use of the plural suffix How would you tranlate 'several books' into Turkish? 'Birkaç kitap', or 'Birkaç kitaplar'? We do not add the...

Homonyms in Turkish might be confusing for learners of English and Turkish, and may lead to such translations in the pictures. You can...

You may often hear Turkish speakers using m-doublets, such as 'çocuk mocuk, para mara, kitap mitap, sebze mebze, adam madam, iyilik...

Besides suffixes, we make new words through blending, in the same way as in English. Such words are usually made joining the beginning of...

How many words can you derive from 'göz'? Example: gözlük, gözlükçü

Reading film scripts can be a good practice in improving your Turkish. Here are the scripts of Cem Yılmaz films.

A friend of a friend of mine goes to a hardware store to buy a screw plug while studying at university in Austria. But he doesn’t know...

Like in English, words are connected when a word ends in a consonant sound and the next word starts with a vowel sound. This is called...

For new learners it is a very good video to learn the alphabet. Note that: Turkish script is almost like a phonetic transcription. In the...

Almost all nouns in Turkish are singular ‘tekil’ in nature and form the plural ‘çoğul’ by adding -ler.

Vowel harmony applies to vowels in suffixes. When a suffix is added to a word, its vowel changes depending on the last vowel in the word....