Baris

[size=2] Vowel Harmony is an original and essential characteristic of the Turkish language.
It is a matter of logic, it is smooth to the tongue and sweet to the ear.
Now, we’re going to harmonize the vowels of theses endings to the last vowel of the stem word.

There are 2 groups of vowels:
- hard vowels = a ı o u
- soft vowels = e i ö ü

All the vowels of a word’s endings must belong to the same vowel group of the last vowel of that word.
Example : for the word sevgili (darling), let’s add 3 endings to it : sevgili+ler+in+dir.
The vowels of these endings are e, i and i = all of them belong to the same vowel group of the last vowel of that word, i.e.: i.
Let’s study the ending meaning MY :
- when the word ends with a vowel, whatever vowel, just add an M. (see lesson 2)

ex : araba =car ; arabam = my car
ütü= iron ; ütüm= my iron

- when the word ends with a consonant, we have to add a vowel before the M so that we can read the word more easily. Look at the last vowel of the word and harmonize the ending’s vowel accordingly:dost - dostum

To sum it up :

a/ı > ı

e/i > i

ö/ü > ü

o/u > u

The ending MY belongs to the endings that work with the –i type vowel harmony. (where you can choose between i, ı, u and ü).

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Asminha

Salam again,

That lesson is ab it into grammar, so it needs more concentration, I guess that I will get back to it when I'll finish my classes today!!!

Now, tell me, what about this :
You wrote : at = horse, and atim = my cheval
I had a big smile reading that, French is showing up there :D that happens moste of the time

Thanks for the lessons again, and keep it up!!

Have a good day.

Baris

Thank u soooo much for your correction! I hadn't noticed it!! :D :D :D

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Asminha

Teacher?
How can I know when to add "im" or "um" or "üm" (Yippie, works to copy and paste the accents :D) ???

Is there any rule for that?

Baris

sure, there's a rule which is in the lesson above!!! :-)) I suggest u to read again....
a/ı > ı

e/i > i

ö/ü > ü

o/u > u

if u don't understand it, ask me again and I'll try in arabic!
well...

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Asminha

Well, I guess that I asked because I didn't get what you meant by what you pasted again above!!

Asminha

Well..well..I get it now :D

I didn't go more far than considering the last letter of the word, so I saw that both kol and el ended with "l" but the first became kolum and the second elim..
I read again the rule (shameful) and I see it all now..

Please bear with me, I sometimes get those times when I become "a bit" stupid :D