Lesson 46 :Relative verbs and object participles formation. Passage: Turkey's geography- Türkiye'nin çografya

Thıs lesson will focus on the relative verbs and the object participles formation in Turkish.

This also is going to be a lesson a little bit longer than normal so please be patient and follow it carefully!!

Listen to this passage with attention.

" Bu, Türkiye haritasıdır. Türkiye üç tarafı denizlerle çevrilmiş bir yarımadadır. Kuzey'de Karadeniz, Batı'da Ege Denizi ve Güney'de Akdeniz vardır.
Türkiye Asya ve Avrupa kıtaları üzerinde kurulmuştur. Asya üzerindeki kısım Anadolu, Avrupa üzerindeki kısım ise Trakya'dır. Anadolu ile Trakya,yani Asya ile Avrupa birbirlerinden İstanbul ve Çanakkale Boğazları ile ayrılırlar.
Türkiye, kuzeydoğuda Rusya,doğuda İran, güneydoğuda Irak, güneyde Süriye, batıda Yunanistan ve kuzeybatıda Bulgaristan ile komşudur.
Türkiye Cumhuriyetle yönetilir. Yetmiş alttı tane il merkezi ve çok sayda ilçe ,merkezi vardır. En büyük ili İstanbul'dur. Boğazici Köprüsü de İstanbul'dadır. İki kıtayı birbirine  bağlayan bu köprünün uzunluğu bir kilometredir. Yaya olarak bir kıtadan diğerine geçmek ancak on beş dakika sürer.
Türkiye'nin iklimine gelince:
Güney'de hava, hemen hemen her mevsim sıcaktır ve denize girmek mümkündür.Kuzey bölgesi genellikle yağmurludur. Batıda yazın sıcak,kışın yağmur vardır. kar ender olarak yağar. Yağsa bile birkaç gün sonra kalkar. İç ve Doğu Anadolu Bölgeleri dağlık ve yüksektir. Bu nedenl yazın sıcak,kışın soğuk olur"


VOCABULARY/VOCABOLARIO

Harita:    Map - mappa,cartina geografica
Çevrilmiş: surrounded by - circondato
 Kuzey:      North - Nord
Batı:           West - Ovest
Güney:       South - Sud
Doğu:         East - Est
Karadeniz:  Back Sea - Mar Nero
Akdeniz:     Mediterranean Sea - Mare Mediterraneo
Ege Denizi: Aegean Sea - Mar Egeo
Kıta:            Continent - continente
Kısım:         Part,portion - parte
Boğaz:        Channel, Strait - Stretto ( geografico)
Güneydoğu: Southeast  - Sud-est
Yunanistan: Greece - Grecia
Suriye:          Syria  - Siria
Yönetmek:    To govern - governare, dirigere
Köprü:          Bridge - ponte
Mümkün:    Possible - possibile
Kar:            Snow - neve
Ender olarak:  Rarely,seldom - di rado
Bu nedenle: For this reason - per questo motivo.


                                                                      GRAMMATICAL NOTES

Let's see now in detail the relative verbs and the object participles formation.

A participle is an adjective which is formed from a verb - and as such it precedes the noun which it describes.
Being a relative participle then it can also serve as a noun and therefore have the personal suffixes and the suffixes of declension added thus forming a relative clause.

RELATIVE VERBS

Participle + Possessive Suffix - Noun - Verb

Look at these examples:

• Oturduğum [Otur-duğ-um] ev budur. - This is the house in which I live.
• En çok sevdiğin [sev-diğ-in ] yemek nedir? - What is the food that you like best?
• Yazdığı [Yaz-dığ-ı] mektubu aldım. - I have received the letter that he wrote.
• Geldiğimiz [Gel-diğ-imiz] araba çalınmış. - The car in which we came has been stolen, they say.
• Beğendiğiniz [Beğen-diğ-iniz] kumaşı bulamadım. - I could not find the material that you liked.
• Yaptıkları [Yap-tık-ları] iyiliği unutamayacağım. - I shall not be able to forget the kindness that they have shown.

This participle, which is used for present as well as past time, is identical with the first person plural of the past definite tense, but a possessive suffix (for person) is added to make it equivalent to a relative pronoun. The final -k mutates to -ğ before the possessive suffix, except in the plural.

 

1. Oturduğum ev budur. - This is the house in which I live.
2. Oturduğun ev budur. - This is the house in which you live.
3. Oturduğu ev budur. - This is the house in which he lives.
4. Oturduğumuz ev budur. - This is the house in which we live.
5. Oturduğunuz ev budur. - This is the house in which you live.
6. Oturdukları ev budur. - This is the house in which they live.

We already know that adjectives can stand in place of nouns in Turkish, so if we take a further example, showing how this happens:
Ahmet, söylediğim cevabı beğenmemiş -  Ahmet seemed not to like the answer that I spoke. - here the participle - söylediğim - that which I spoke - is used as an adjective to describe - cevap - answer (which is in the objective case - cevabı, as an object of the final verb - beğenmemiş - not to like (apparently)
However we can make the relative adjective into a noun (a relative pronoun) and put this replacing noun into the objective case:
Ahmet, söylediğimi beğenmemiş - Mehmet seemed not to like what I said.

The Participle used as a Noun

Let us give some examples in all persons ( all these relative pronouns are in the objective case as a direct object of the verb - beğenmemiş:

1. Ahmet, söylediğimi beğenmemiş -  Ahmet did not like what I said.
2. Ahmet, söylediğini beğenmemiş -  Ahmet did not like what you said.
3. Ahmet, söylediği beğenmemiş -  Ahmet did not like what he said.
4. Ahmet, söylediğimizi beğenmemiş -  Ahmet did not like what we said.
5. Ahmet, söylediğinizi beğenmemiş -  Ahmet did not like what you said.
6. Ahmet, söylediklerini beğenmemiş -  Ahmet did not like what they said.

Object Participle Formation

The -mek or -mak is dropped from the Infinitive of the Verb and is replaced by the suffix -dik - which is subject to vowel harmony.

The E-Dotted Vowels

gelmek - to come becomes geldik - that came/that which is coming
gülmek - to laugh becomes güldük - that laughed/that which laughs

The A-UnDotted Vowels

bakmak - to look becomes baktık - that looked at/that which looks at
okumak - to exit becomes okuduk - that read
Generally this participle is not used in its pure form as above but is always personalized. This participle just happens to be the same as the 1st Person Plural of the Simple Past Definite Tense - (with suffix -dik/-tik or -dık/-tık or -duk/-tuk or -dük/-tük according to Vowel Harmony and Consonant Mutation Rules) - but as it seldom used in its pure form then it is not possible to mistake it. Also being a Participle [a Verbal Adjective], it describes a noun so therefore it precedes its noun, and as it is not a verb then it does not stand last in final position in the sentence. From this is becomes easier to recognize it as a verbal adjective by its position in any sentence.

Object Participle Usage

This -dik suffix is often difficult to recognize as it has so many forms due to Vowel Harmony operating in its internal vowel, and Consonant Mutation operating on both the initial -d and the terminal -k
The -dik, -duk, -dık, -dük - Participle is subject to both Vowel Harmony and Consonant Mutation Rules.
So you can find -tik, -tuk, -tık, -tük. If a further suffix with a vowel is added the the final -k is also subject to Consonant Mutation: -diği, -duğu, -dığı, -düğü or -tiği, -tuğu, -tığı, -tüğü

 Examples

bulmak - to find - Bulduğum şapka - The hat which I found.
seçmek - to choose - Seçtiğin kitap - The book that you are choosing/chose
görmek - to see - Gördüğü araba - The car that he sees/saw
yazmak - to write - Yazdığımız mektup - The letter that we are writing/that we wrote
demek - to say - Dediğiniz gibi - Like (what) you say/said
sevmek - to like - Sevdikleri dondurma - The ice cream that they liked.
Bulduğum mendil beyazdır - The handkerchief that I found is white.
Yazdığımız mektuplar buradadır - The letters that we wrote are here.
Çalıştığım büro (ofis) kapalı - The office where I work is closed/ The office where I worked is closed.
Söyledikleri mantıklıdır - What they are saying/said is/was sensible.

Participle examples

Relative Object Participles - showing English Object Participle - Past and Present tenses

1. Doğduğum şehri ziyaret ettim
I visited the city where I was born.
2. Bana verdiğin parayı kaybettim
I have lost the money that you gave me.
3. Bu pencereden gördüğünüz evler çok iyi yapılmıştır
The houses (which/that) you see from this window are very well built.
4. Erkek kardeşimin binmiş olduğu bisiklet bir ağacın yanında duruyordu
The bicycle (which/that) my brother had been riding was standing near a tree.
5. İlk karşılaştığımız yeri hatırlıyor musun?
Do you remember the place where we first met?
6. Benim ofisimde gördüğün adam arkadaşımın babası idi
The man (whom/that) you saw in my office was the father of my friend.

Future Objective Participle

This Participle in its simple consists of the verb stem with the addition of the Future Tense Sign -ecek or -acak. The -mek or -mak is dropped from the Infinitive of the Verb and is replaced by the suffix -ecek - which is subject to vowel harmony.
gelmek - to come - gelecek - that will come
gülmek - to laugh - gülecek - that will laugh
bakmak - to look - bakacak - that will look
çıkmak - to exit - çıkacak - that will go out
This -ecek/-acak future participle can be used in its pure form and also personalized. This participle just happens to be the same as the 3rd person singular of the Future Tense but it is not possible to mistake it , as being an adjective it is never last in the sentence - but usually modifies a noun.
Yarınki yapacağım iş önemli - The work that I will do tomorrow is (will be) important
Yapılabilecek bir sey yok (yap -il -ebil -ecek) - There is nothing (from a future aspect) that can be done

Subject Participle -en/-an

A participle is an adjective so it describes a noun and therefore always precedes the noun (or noun phrase) that it describes, so the subject participle describes or signifies the person/thing who is doing something.., i.e. the subject of the sentence:
Çalan zil- The bell which is ringing.. This description itself can be an Object of another verb:
Çalan zili duyabilirim - I can hear the bell which is ringing.
Çalan zili duyabilirdim - I could hear the bell which was ringing.
The passive of çalmak is çalınmak. so the above sentence in the Passive is:
Çalınan zili duyabilirim - I can hear the bell that is being rung.
Çalınan zili duyabilirdim - I could hear the bell that was being rung.
We can also see from the above examples that the -an/-en Subject Participle, being an adjective, does not show the tense. The tense is taken from the main verb at the end of the sentence.


In the nex lesson we will see other participle patterns.

TRY TO MEMORIZE THESE CONSTRUCTION AS BETTER AS YOU CAN!!!

Lesson 45 :The Necessitative mode (-MALI, -MELİ) and other forms to express obligation and necessity. Passage: Train station-tren istasyonu

In This lesson we will talk about the Necessitative mood in Turkish and other forms to express necessity or obligation.
It's going to be a long lesson but the topic is rather vaste and requires more room than usual.
Don't get bored!!! Let's go!!!

Listen to this passage carefully.

"Büyük şehirlerdeki tren istasyonları çok büyüktür.Her saat birçok tren gelir ve gider.İstasyonda her zaman yüzlerce insan vardır. Bu yüzden bazı insanlar kaybolur ve bazıları da treni kaçırırlar.Yolculuğa çıkmadan önce yr ayırtmak gerekir. Böylece trende bir yeriniz var demektir.Rezervasyonu telefonla yaptırabilirsiniz,fakat bileti bir gün önce almalısınız. Bileti zamanında almazsanız,iptal ederler v bir başkasına verirler.
Bagajlarınızı bagaj odasına bırakabilirsiniz.Beraberinizde taşımak zorunda değilsiniz."


  VOCABULARY/VOCABOLARIO

Şehir,kent:     City - citta'
Her saat:        Every hour - ogni ora
Birçok tren:    Many trains - tanti treni
Yüzlerce:        Hundreds - centinaia
Bu yüzden:     For this reason -per questo motivo
Kaçırmak:      To miss - perdere (un mezzo)
Almazsanız:   If you don't get,take - se non prendete  - (this is an example of Conditional Tense)
Kaybolmak:    Get lost - perdersi
Yolculuk:        Trip, voyage, journey - viaggio
Yer ayırtmak: To book, to make a reservation - Prenotare un posto
Iptal etmek:    To cancel - annullare
Vermek:          To give - dare
Taşımak:         To carry - portarsi dietro
Beraberinizde: Whit you - con voi
Zamanında:     On time- in orario
Bir başkasına: To someone else- a qualcun altro




                                                                 GRAMMAR NOTES

The Necessitative mood in Turkish can be expressed in different ways.
The most common way to express obligation is through the use of the suffixes -MALI    -MELİ  to be attached to infinitive stems ending in -MAK  or -MEK respectively.
The negative form is obtained by attaching the negative suffixes -MA  or  -ME  between the infinitive stem and necessitative suffixes:  -MAMALI    -MEMELİ
To conjugate the tense, personal suffixes are to be added to necessitative suffixes.

Let's see a few examples:

Bakmak - to see

-malı- Suffix
bakmalıyım	I ought to see/I must see	bakmamalıyım	I ought not to see
bakmalısın	You ought to see/You must see	bakmamalısın	You ought not to see
O bakmalı(dır)	He ought to see/He must see	O bakmamalı(dır)	He ought not to see
bakmalıyız	We ought to see/we must see	bakmamalıyız	We ought not to see
bakmalısınız	You ought to see/you must see	bakmamalısınız	You ought not to see
bakmalı(dır)lar	They ought to see/They must see	bakmamalı(dır)lar	They ought not to see

Girmek - to enter
Similarly for the E-Dotted Group of Verbs (where because of Vowel Harmony Rules the Suffix of Obligation takes its dotted form -li-) - girmek - to enter - will become girmeli- for the Positive and girmemeli- for the Negative

-meli- Suffix
girmeliyim	I ought to enter	girmemeliyim	I ought not to enter
girmelisin	You ought to enter	girmemelisin	You ought not to enter
O girmeli(dir)	He ought to enter	O girmemeli(dir)	He ought not to enter
girmeliyiz	We ought to enter	girmemeliyiz	We ought not to enter
girmelisiniz	You ought to enter	girmemelisiniz	You ought not to enter
girmeli(dir)ler	They ought to enter	girmemeli(dir)ler	They ought not to enter

Hereby the conjugation of the Necessitative in different tenses:

Memorize the constructions.To do so it is fundamental that you repeat them several times.
Also try other verbs you have already learnt.

 To go: Gitmek

Affirmative Form - Present Tense
Ben gitmeliyim	I must go
Sen gitmelisin	You ought to go
O gitmeli(dir)	He, She, It should go
Biz gitmeliyiz	We have to go
Siz gitmelisiniz	You have got to go
Onlar gitmeli(dir)ler	They have to go

Interrogative Present Tense
Ben gitmeli miyim?	Must I go?
Sen gitmeli misin?	Ought you to go?
O gitmeli mi?	Should he go?
Biz gitmeli miyiz?	Have we to go?
Siz gitmeli misiniz?	Have you got to go?
Onlar gitmeliler mi?	Have they got to go?

Negative Form  - Present Tense
Ben gitmemeliyim	I must not go
Sen gitmemelisin	You ought not to go
O gitmemeli	He should not go
Biz gitmemeliyiz	We have not to go
Siz gitmemelisiniz	You have not got to go
Onlar gitmemeliler	They have not got to go

Negative Form - Interrogative Present Tense
Ben gitmemeli miyim?	Must I not go? (Mustn't I go?)
Sen gitmemeli misin?	Ought you not to go? (Oughtn't you to go?)
O gitmemeli mi?	Should he not go? (Shouldn't he go?)
Biz gitmemeli miyiz?	Have we not got to go? (Haven't we (got) to go?)
Siz gitmemeli misiniz?	Have you not to go? (Haven't you to go?)
Onlar gitmemeliler mi?	Have they not got to go? (Haven't they got to go?)

 

Past Definite

Necessitative Past Definite - Relates to an actual situation - I should have gone.., He must have gone.., etc..

Affirmative Form Past Tense Definite
Ben gitmeliydim	I must have gone
Sen gitmeliydin	You ought to have gone
O gitmeliydi	He should have gone
Biz gitmeliydik	We had to go
Siz gitmeliydiniz	You had got to go
Onlar gitmeliydiler	They had to go

Affirmative Form - Interrogative Past Tense Definite
Ben gitmeli miydim?	Must I have gone?
Sen gitmeli miydin?	Ought you to have gone?
O gitmeli miydi?	Should he have gone?
Biz gitmeli miydik?	Had we to go?
Siz gitmeli miydiniz?	Had you got to go?
Onlar gitmeliler miydi?	Had they got to go?

Negative Form - Statement Past Tense Definite
Ben gitmemeliydim	I must not have gone
Sen gitmemeliydin	You ought not to have gone
O gitmemeliydi	He should not have gone
Biz gitmemeliydik	We had not to go
Siz gitmemeliydiniz	You had not got to go
Onlar gitmemeliydiler	They had not got to go

Negative Form - Interrogative Past Tense Definite
Ben gitmemeli miydim?	Must I not have gone? (Mustn't I have gone?)
Sen gitmemeli miydin?	Ought you not to have gone? Oughtn't you to have gone?)
O gitmemeli miydi?	Should he not have gone? (Shouldn't he have gone?)
Biz gitmemeli miydik?	Had we not got to go? (Hadn't we got to go?)
Siz gitmemeli miydiniz?	Had you not got to go? (Hadn't you got to go?)
Onlar gitmemeliler miydi?	Had they not got to go? (Hadn't they got to go?)

 

Past Indefinite

Necessitative Past of Presumption - relates to an assumption - I suppose that I should have gone, I suppose that he should have gone, etc.

Affirmative Form - Statement of Presumption
Ben gitmeliymişim	(I suppose that) I must have gone
Sen gitmeliymişsin	(I believe that) you ought to have gone
O gitmeliymiş	(Presumably) he should have gone
Biz gitmeliymişiz	(In reality) we had got to go
Siz gitmeliymişsiniz	(It seems that) you had to go
Onlar gitmeliymişler	(Probably) they had got to go

Question of Presumption
Ben gitmeli miymişim?	Ought I to have gone? (at all?)
Sen gitmeli miymişsin?	Should you have gone? (possibly?)
O gitmeli miymiş?	(I wonder?) Did he have to go?
Biz gitmeli miymişiz?	(I wonder?) Did we have to go?
Siz gitmeli miymişsiniz?	(It seems that?) Did you have to go?
Onlar gitmeli miymişler?	(Surely by now?) Must they have gone?

Negative Form - Statement of Presumption
Ben gitmemeliymişim	(I suppose that) I must not have gone.
Sen gitmemeliymişsin	(I believe that) you ought not to have gone.
O gitmemeliymiş	(Presumably) he should not have gone.
Biz gitmemeliymişiz	(In reality) we had not got to go.
Siz gitmemeliymişsiniz	(It seems that) you had not to go.
Onlar gitmemeliymişler	(Probably) they did not have to go.

Negative Form - Interrogative of Presumption
Ben gitmemeli miymişim?	Ought I not to have gone? (at all?)
Sen gitmemeli miymişsin?	(I think that?) Should you not have gone?
O gitmemeli miymiş?	(I wonder?) Did he not have to go?
Biz gitmemeli miymişiz?	(I wonder?) Had we not got to go?
Siz gitmemeli miymişsiniz?	(It seems that? ) Did you not have to go?
Onlar gitmemeli miymişler?	(Surely?) must they not have gone?

Hovewer there are in Turkish other ways to express obligation or necessity.
The first way is to use the noun  zor - trouble, difficulty, worry, problem,difficult, hard
zorunda kalmak [zor-u-nda = "in the problem"] - to be left no choice but (to do something)
zorunda olmak- to have to, be obliged to (do something)
We can also use the arabic word mecbur - necessity, need to..
mecbur olmak /-a/ {demands a Motion Towards Object) - to be forced to, be obliged to, have to (do something).
mecbur kalmak -/a/ {demands a Motion Towards Object) - to feel obliged to, feel that one has to (do something).

 

Use of lâzım - need or gerek - necessity as an auxiliary.

Benim kitap okumam lâzım - [lit: My reading book is needed] - means - I should read a book- that's why we use "-im" - "my" to personalize the sentence.

Benim kitap okumam lâzım or Benim kitap okumam lâzım
Senin kitap okuman lâzım or Senin kitap okuman lâzım
Ali'nin kitap okması lâzım or Ali'nin kitap okması lâzım
Bizim kitap okumamız lâzım or Bizim kitap okumamız lâzım
Sizin kitap okumanız lâzım or Sizin kitap okumanız lâzım
Onların kitap okuması (or okumaları) lâzım or Onların kitap okuması (or okumaları) lâzım.

The Possessive Personalized "-in" is used with both gerek and lâzım but not with -meli,-malı tense suffix.
Turkish gerek (from gerekmek-to need) is generally used instead of the Arabic lâzım, although the latter is largely used in daily conversation.

Lesson 44 :The adverbial clause of time -İKEN (while). Conversation: New Year's Eve - Yılbaşı

The lesson will focus on one of Adverbial clause of time corresponding at "while" in English or "mentre" in Italian (for my Italian followers).

Listen to the following passage carefully and stick your attention to the suffix -IKEN (-KEN) attached to verbs, nouns and adjectives.

" Alo!  Ayşe nasılsın? İyi misin? Yılbaşı gecesini nasıl geçirdiniz?
Çok iyi geçirdik,Nurdan. Televizyonda çok güzel bir eğlence programı vardı. Annem  ve ben televizyon seyrederken babamla kardeşim kağıt oynuyorlardı.Akşam üzeri alışverişe giderken yolda seni gördüm ama sen beni görmedin. Acele acele gidiyordun. Önemli bir şey mi vardı?
Hayır,önemli bir şey yoktu.Hava soğuktu. Okuldan gelirken çok üşümüstüm.Zaten okuldayken de çok soğuktu.
Biliyorsun bu günlerde yakıt yok.
Bizde de yakıt yoktu ama babam sabahleyin işe giderken yolda bir tanker görüp eve yollamış.Tam beş ton aldık. Şimdi evimiz sıcak.
Öyleyse ben de size geliyorum.
Çabuk gel, bekliyorum!"


VOCABULARY/VOCABOLARIO

Geçirmek:  To spend (time) - trascorrere
Kağıt:  Cards -  carte
Kağıt oynamak:  To play cards- giocare a carte
Yakıt:      Fuel  - carburante ( in generale)
Yollamak: To send - inviare, mandare
Çabuk:      Quick, harry up! - velocemente



                                                     GRAMMATICAL NOTES


 The  Adverbial clause suffix -İKEN in Turkish is used to express " While". İken can stand alone or be suffixed as -ken (when added to consonants) or -yken (when added to vowels). It is invariable and does not follow the rules of vowel harmony. It does not take further suffixes. iken is used when the verb action is continuous at a point in time. It may also follow an adjective.

Let's see the different field of application of this clause.

İken - with the Present Tenses

-ken is always suffixed to the verb tense sign. As the subject is not always evident, then it is normally stated as in the examples below.
Ali kasabaya yürüyorken onu gördüm - I saw Ali while (he was) walking to town
Sen kasabaya yürüyorken, seni gördüm- I saw you while (you were) walking to town
Ben kasabaya yürüyorken, seni gördüm- I saw you while (I was) walking to town
Biz kasabaya yürüyorken, onu gördük- We saw him while we were walking to town
Biz kasabaya yürürken, onu her gün görürüz- Every day we see him when (while) we walk to town.
[Simple present habitual - yürü-r-ken]
Siz dans ediyorken, dinleneyim- Let me rest while you are dancing
Onlar dans ederken, dinlenelim- Let's rest while they dance
In the first three examples above it can be seen that the Personal Subject Pronouns have to be used to point to the subject, as iken can not be suffixed to pronouns. The last three examples show a slight difference in meaning due to the differing use in the Wide Tense and Present Continuous Tenses.

İken - with Adjectives

iken can be used with adjectives, in this case it can stand alone or be used as a suffix:
Ben, hasta iken (hastayken), uyurum - I sleep while (when) I am ill
Biz, o hastayken, merak ettik - While he was ill, we worried
Onlar, siz uykuda iken, meşgul olacaklar - They will be busy while you are asleep

 

İken - with the Past Tenses

If the action is continuous in the past then iken can be translated into English: - As -were -ing
As I was going downtown I saw him.

Past Definite Tense:

Ben İngiltere'deyken, yağmur yağdı - While I was in England, it rained
Past Continuous Tense:

Biz İngiltere'ye giderken, yağmur yağıyordu. - As we were going to England it was raining

İken - with Past Participle in -miş

This construction produces -mişken - means - having done
yapmışken - having done
yapılmışken - having been done
Bu iş bitirilmişken, eve gidelim - This job having been finished, lets go home..
Aklıma gelmişken, söyleyeyim - Having come to (my) mind, let me tell you..
Hazır gelmişken bir kahveni içelim - Having already come, let us drink a coffee of yours.

İken - with Negative Wide Tense

-mezken, -mazken means though not or while it isn't (This is a kind of official language. You can only hear these sentences in news or commercials.)
Galatasaray'ın yıldız futbolcularından Necati Ates, kendilerine ödeme yapılamazken, bazı yabancı oyuncuların alacaklarının verildiğini duymanın üzüntü verici olduğunu söyledi.
The cases we have just analyzed represent the main applications of this important avderbial time clause.