In this video lesson for beginner Turkish students, Yağız explains how to make Turkish ordinal numbers with the IncI suffix

In Turkish, adverbials (belirteçler) are words or phrases that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to provide more detail about how, when, where, or to what degree an action takes place. Understanding adverbials is key to building more natural and expressive Turkish sentences.

The Aorist tense (or Geniş Zaman in Turkish) is commonly used to express habits, truths, and generalities. We provide the list of 13 verbs that are irregular in the Aorist tense in Turkish.

There are many ways to express imperatives in Turkish, or commands, but be careful! Not all of them are created equal -they vary in politeness. We explain the gradations of politeness of each Turkish imperative form here.

In this video lesson for Intermediate Turkish students Yağız Şen explains how to correctly talk about definite and indefinite objects (when and how to use the accusative case) in combination with the genitive-possessive construction.

Turkish Language Textbooks use specific notations that may not be obvious to someone new to learning the language. We decipher the most common conventions that everone learning Turkish will come across frequently, whether you are doing self-study or taking a class.

While most people learning Turkish feel that despite it's challenges, Turkish is a very logical language, meaning there are clear and easy to follow rules; there are some unexpected curveballs coming to any one studying Turkish, and these exceptions to vowel harmony are among them.

The term stress refers to the high pitch and loudness with which a syllable is pronounced relative to others in the same word or sequence of words. This page introduces Turkish stress patterns an exceptions in isolated Turkish words.

In Turkish, the causative voice is used to indicate that the subject causes someone else to perform an action. It's formed by adding various suffixes to the verb root. In this video lesson Yağız Şen gives a brief overview of 5 of the Turkish grammatical 'voices' (passive, active, reflexive, causative, reciprocal), gives a detailed introduction to the Turkish causative suffixes, how to use cases with causative phrases, explains how to do double and multiple causatives in Turkish, as well as Turkish negative causatives.

Medial Vowel Loss describes the phenomenon when a vowel is lost from some Turkish root/nouns when another suffix is added to it - as in the change from oğul (son) to oğlum (my son) - otherwise expected to become 'oğulum’. We provide a list of such cases.

A lot of Turkish language learners struggle understanding the different between the verbs for 'to bring/to take' in Turkish - getirmek and götürmek - we break down the difference and how to use these verbs correctly.