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We have already learned to put case suffixes after nouns. In this lesson you will learn to use case suffixes behind verbs.


<table class="ui celled fixed table">
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>I love learning Turkish.</td>
			<td>Türkçe öğrenmeyi seviyorum.</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>I am afraid of flying.</td>
			<td>Uçmaktan korkuyorum.</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>I am trying to learn Turkish.</td>
			<td>Türkçe öğrenmeye çalışıyorum.</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>She insisted on leaving.</td>
			<td>Ayrılmakta ısrar etti.</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>I want to try something new.</td>
			<td>Yeni bir şey denemek istiyorum.</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>I want to swim tomorrow.</td>
			<td>Yüzmeyi yarın istiyorum.</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>


	As you can see above, the ablative and locative suffixes come after the full infinitive, whereas the accusative and dative suffixes come after the light infinitive, that is, the infinitive without the final k.
	Yes, there are some verbs in Turkish, such as ısrar etmek, which take objects with a locative case suffix.



	The English verb to try is often translated with çalışmak if trying means that you are making effort.
	If trying doesn't mean making effort, the verb denemek is used instead.



	The only verb that can take another verb as an object in its nominative form - that is, without suffixes - is istemek.
	You can see this in the sentence Yeni bir şey denemek istiyorum.
	However, if a word comes between istemek and its verbal object, then we do need to use the accusative suffix.
	You can see this in the sentence Yüzmeyi yarın istiyorum, in which yarın is in an uncommon place.
	In this sentence, it was already clear that I wanted to swim, and I am focusing on the word yarın to emphasize that it is tomorrow that I want to swim.
	Words get more emphasis when we put them later in the sentence, closer to the final verb.

The infinitive with case suffixes

noun

adjective

determiner

verb

adverb

postposition

interjection

conjunction

pronoun

sentence

phrase

Unknown

NOUN - vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

VERB - intransitive, passive

VERB - intransitive, non-passive

VERB - transitive, non-causative

VERB - transitive, causative

VERB - ablative

VERB - dative

VERB - locative

VERB - accusative

VERB - intransitive, reciprocal

VERB - intransitive, reflexive

VERB - auxiliary

Counting to 10

Fruits

The days of the week

The months of the year

Demonstratives

Adjectives

Vegetables

Animals extended

Hello and goodbye

Colors

First degree family

Nouns and articles

Plural nouns and minor vowel harmony

Personal pronouns

The verb "to be"

There is and there are

The infinitive and the stem

The imperative and major vowel harmony

The present continuous

The locative case suffix

The accusative case suffix

The dative case suffix

Final consonant harmony

Negative verbs

Questions in the present continuous

Questions with the verb "to be"

The imperative

The imperative forms of yemek and demek

Different uses of the present continuous

Irregular verbs

The Turkish alphabet

The indefinite article and the number one

The negative form of "to be"

Question words

Meeting people

Conjunctions

Stress inside questions

Locative location pronouns

Dative and ablative location pronouns

Accusative and locative personal pronouns

The genitive case suffix

Genitive personal pronouns

Extended family

The possession suffix

Dative and ablative personal pronouns

Expressing possession with var and yok

Clothing

The head and related parts

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Body parts

Combining suffixes

Water and the possession suffix

Vowel elimination on suffixation

Location postpositions

Location postpositions 2

Extra vocabulary and expressions

The ablative case suffix

Wearing things

Demonstratives with case suffixes

Counting larger numbers

Using numbers and quantifiers

A bit much and more and less

Animals

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The instrumentative

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Nuts

Countries

Traffic and directions

The weather

With and without

Nationalities

Question	Answer
I love learning Turkish.	(Ben) Türkçe öğrenmeyi seviyorum.
I am afraid of flying.	(Ben) uçmaktan korkuyorum.
I hate speaking Turkish	(Ben) Türkçe konuşmaktan nefret ediyorum.
to try	çalışmak
I am trying to learn Turkish.	(Ben) Türkçe öğrenmeye çalışıyorum.
to shout, to yell	bağırmak
to begin, to start	başlamak
He started to shout.	(O) bağırmaya başladı.
to depart, to leave	ayrılmak
insistence	ısrar
to insist	ısrar etmek
She insisted on leaving.	(O) ayrılmakta ısrar etti.
to try	denemek
I want to try something new.	(Ben) yeni bir şey denemek istiyorum.
to swim	yüzmek
It is tomorrow that I want to swim.	(Ben) yüzmeyi yarın istiyorum.

Turkish 81 - The infinitive with case suffixes

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