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di’li geçmiş zaman *The Simple Past Tense in Turkish

GEÇMİŞ ZAMANIN HİKAYESİ *di’li geçmiş zaman
The Simple Past Tense positive form
Last Vowel –Last/Soft Consonant-Hard Consonant (p, ç, t, k, ş, h, f, s)
a, ı -dı -tı
e, i -di -ti
o, u -du -tu
ö, ü -dü -tü
Let’s study some verbs:
main form for the Simple Past Tense.
Suffixes are -dı -di -du -dü

Görmek : to see
The root is : gör-
The stem ends by ´r´ and it is a soft consonant; last vowel is ´ö´.

According to the table, we should choose -dü
Janet gör + dü : Janet gördü. /She saw.(in English,the structure is S+V+O in Turkish S+O+V,besides this you can see this structure,too! S+V+ no object :)
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Yapmak : to do / to make our suffixes are -tı –ti -tu -tü
The root is : yap-
The stem ends by a ´hard consonant´ (p) and its last vowel is ´a´.
Hard consonants: (p, ç, t, k, ş, h, f, s)
When we look at the table we see that we should use " -tı" suffix.
Mike yap + tı : Mike yaptı./ He did .
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kapatmak :to close
It ends by a hard consonant (t) and its last vowel is "a".
From the table; we are going to put -tı
O kapat + tı : O kapattı. He/she/it closed.


We add personal endings nearby the Main Form of Tense; see in the table below:
Pronoun Suffix
Ben -m
Sen -n
O no suffix
Biz -k
Siz -niz, -nız, -nüz, -nız (according to Vowel Harmony)
Onlar -lar, -ler

Yapmak -to do/to make the root is yap-
I did > Yaptım
You did > Yaptın
He/she/it did Yaptı
We did > Yaptık
You did > Yaptınız
They did > Yaptılar