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Present Continuous Tense

Tenses

There are 5 fundamental tenses in Turkish. These are:

Present simple tense (Geni zaman)

Present continuous tense (imdiki zaman)

Future tense (Gelecek zaman)

Past tense with di (di'li geçmi zaman) > Regular past tense

Past tense with mi (mi'li geçmi zaman) > Also called the story past tense

In the basic grammar lessons, we will cover the present continuous tense and the future tense. Rest will be covered in the

intermediate level lessons.

To start with, let's review some verbs we'll use in the following lessons and their meanings:

gelmek > to come

gitmek > to go

okumak > to read

kapatmak > to close

komak > to run

aramak > to call

konumak > to talk

vermek > to give

kaynamak > to boil

çalımak > to work

yemek > to eat

beklemek > to wait

The meaning of tenses are given using some suffixes. There are some important properties common to all these suffixes

denoting tense:

The suffix for tenses is added right after the verb root if the verb is positive, or after the negating suffix if the verb is

negative.

The present tense for of 'to be' comes after the suffix for tense.

Therefore, the order becomes: verb root + (negative) + tense + present tense to be

This is different only for the regular past tense, where past tense form of to be is used.

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1. Present continuous tense (imdiki zaman)

The suffix for present continuous tense is iyor . Present continuous tense is used, very much like the one in English:

To tell what you are currently doing

I am working now. > imdi çalııyorum.

I am eating ice cream. > Dondurma yiyorum.

To tell something you will do in the close future

Wait, I'm coming in 5 minutes. > Bekle, 5 dakika içinde geliyorum.

Present continuous tense is used only for verbs, it is not meaningful for nouns and adjectives.

Present continuous tense of a verb is constructed this way:

verb root + (negative) + iyor + present tense to be

If the verb you want to add the suffix iyor ends with a vowel, drop the last vowel and add iyor . Otherwise, just simply

add iyor. Be careful about the vowel harmony rules for the ' i ' of iyor . Let's see how a verb is put into present continuous

tense on the following examples:

geliyor > geliyor > he is coming

gitiyorim > gidiyorum > i am going

okuiyor > okuyor > he is reading

kapatiyoriz > kapatıyoruz > we are closing

koiyor > kouyor > he is running

araiyorsin > arıyorsun > you are calling

konuiyor > konuuyor > he is talking

vermeiyor > vermiyor > he is not giving

yemeiyor > yemiyor > he is not eating

gelmeiyorsiniz > gelmiyorsunuz > you are not coming (plural you)

And let's see how present continuous tense is used with different cases of person.

English

Turkish

to come > gelmek

i am coming

(ben) geliyorim > geliyorum

you are coming (sen) geliyorsin > geliyorsun

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he \

she | is coming

(o) geliyor

it /

we are coming

(biz) geliyoriz > geliyoruz

you are coming (siz) geliyorsiniz > geliyorsunuz

they are coming (onlar) geliyorler > geliyorlar

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