The Personal Endings.doc

In the Minority?

We may be in an inconsequential minority here,
but we've muddled up our personal endings...
(Not those personal endings!
We mean the ones attached as suffixes
to Turkish verb stems, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs...)
...more than once, so we've decided to discuss the two varieties that have given us the most trouble, together on a single page -- the better for us to observe and compare them during (recurrent) lapses of memory.

That's right, we too use these pages for reference.
And with our private Web Page Search Engine,
we can find just the right information, pretty fast -- and easily.
Now, if we could only convince our Internet Service Providers to supply an Online Search Engine for you gentle readers...
Well, wouldn' tha' be nice...
Until that happens,
try finding what you need on the
LPT Site Contents and Index page

But we're not as mad as we may first appear -- because in many ways the personal endings for the verb stems, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs are very similar.

Have a look for yourself, in the following paragraphs.

Personal Endings (PEs) --
Definitions

1.      The Personal Verbal Endings/suffixes:
are those PEs that you attach to verb stems, nouns, and adjectives -- to form verb-related constructions.

[For Example: When you attach the Personal Verbal Ending, '-ler', to the Wide-tense (Aorist) verb stem of görmek (which is görür), you get görürler; they see].
For more info, see the
Side-by-side Comparison Chart

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2.      The Personal Possessive Endings/suffixes:
are those PEs that you generally attach to nouns and pronouns and that are meant to show possession -- and that usually have nothing to do with verb-related constructions.

[For Example: When you attach the Personal Possessive Ending '-leri' to 'anne', you get anneleri; their mother]
For more info, see the
Side-by-side Comparison Chart.
or

If you're really determined to see these endings used for verb-related constructions,
then go ahead and click here.
Or jump below to see
all the oddball uses of the PPE.
But, remember how we tried to keep it nice n' easy for ya'...

Side by Side Comparison
of the Personal Verbal
and the Personal Possessive Endings/suffixes