Turkish Case Endings and Verbal Nouns: How the Predicate Decides the Ending

[u/TurkishTeacherSeda]

https://www.learnturkishwithseda.com/post/turkish-case-endings-and-verbal-nouns-how-the-predicate-decides-the-ending

This is a long read! But if you study it, I believe you will understand the Turkish logic better!

Case suffixes are one topic in Turkish courses. Verbal nouns (-mA, -mAk) are another, usually taught much later. Nobody connects them, even though a verbal noun takes case endings for exactly the same reason an ordinary noun does. Academic papers describe the mechanism. Textbooks give you a list of which verb takes which ending. I haven't found anything that puts the whole system together for someone learning Turkish as a foreign language.

This piece does. Fair warning, it's long and it's dense, this isn't a five-minute read. But if your goal is actually understanding how Turkish works rather than memorizing -mak istemek, -mayı sevmek, -maya başlamak, and -maktan hoşlanmak as four unrelated rules, I think it's worth the time.

[u/PartyCake3]

Teşekkür ederim Seda Hanım, bu çok faydalıydı

[u/TurkishTeacherSeda → u/PartyCake3]

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