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.

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.

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.

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.

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' following the general convention of the possessive suffix for the first person plural (-Im). Instead, the vowel in the middle (u) is lost and my son is 'oğlum' in Turkish. We provide a list of such cases.

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.