In this lesson we will focus on the Future tense.I strongly advice you to put particular attention on the suffixes adopted to build this tense as they are used for other purposes we will see in more detail within a couple of lessons.
Listen to this conversation .
" Bugün saat beşte sinemaya gideceğim.Benimle gelirmisin?
Herhalde gelmeyeceğim çünkü çok yorgunum.Dün akşam biraz hastaydım.
Bende çok yorgunum ama bir arkadaşım -film çok güzel dedi- Onun için görmek istiyorum.
Kaç matinesine gideceksin?
18.30 matinesine.
Ne oynuyor?
Bir müzikal komedi.
Peki ben de geleceğim. 18.00 de beni evden al"
VOCABULARY/VOCABOLARIO
Herhalde: Probably - probabilmente
Ne oynuyor? : what's on - cosa danno, cosa proiettano?
Görmek istiyorum: I want to see - voglio vedere
Benimle: With me - con me
GRMMATICAL NOTES
The future tense in Turkish is very easy to form. It follows the usual pattern "infinitive stem + tense suffix + personal suffix.
It is appropriate here to point out that this structure corresponda to the different form of future in English.
This construction can be used to express the range of future tenses in English.
It's also useful to remind you that simple present can be used to express future.
In this case the suffixes used to conjugate the future tense are -(y)ecek (ğ) and -(y)acak (ğ) depending on the infinitive whether rounded or unrounded.
In other word in case of infinitives ending in -MEK, the future tense takes -(y)ecek (ğ).
Viceversa the infinitives ending in -MAK take -(y)acak (ğ) .
The buffer letter 'Y' is used in case the infinitive stem ends in vowel.
The mutation of K in Ğ occurs at the 1st person singular and plural for eufonic reasons.
Infinitive stem+
Future suffixes -(y)ecek (ğ) or -(y)acak (ğ) +
Personal suffixes
AFFIRMATIVE FORM
Examples:
Okumak: to read
Okuyacağım I will read - I am going to read
Okuyacaksın You will read - You are going to read
Okuyacak He will read - He is going to read
Okuyacağımız We will read - We are going to read
Okuyacaksınız You will read - You are going to read
Okuyacaklar They will read - They are going to read
Gelmek:To come
Geleceğim I will come - I am going to come
Geleceksin You will come - You are going to come
Gelecek He will come - He is going to come
Geleceğimiz We will come - We are going to come
Geleceksiniz You will come - You are going to come
Gelecekler They will come - They are going to come
They are going to leave tomorrow
Onlar yarın sabah hareket edecekler
We will work
Çalışacağımız
NEGATIVE FORM
The negative form is obtained by attaching the negative suffix -me or -ma to the infinitive stem.
The rest of the structure follows the same pattern as in the affirmative form.
Examples:
She will not write the letter
O mektubu yazmayacak.
We will not meet the boss
Biz müdürle görüşmeyeceğiz
They will not phone the customer service.
Onlar muşteri servisini aramayacaklar
As you may notice the future tense is quite simple to conjugate.
It's worth of reminding you that in the current language future tense is often replaced by the Şimdiki zaman, the Turkish equivalent of the present continuous.
Questions?
I don't think so....
Try to practice more on the future tense by conjugating the following verbs in future tense affirmative and negative forms:
Almak, Bakmak, Çevirmek ( to translate)
End of part 1
