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In Turkish we use the word şey often, and in many situations.



	Şey literally means thing.
	However in Turkish Şey can replace almost anything.
	And this is not an exaggeration; şey can replace: whole sentences, clauses, subjects, objects, whole words, parts of words, etc.



	Şey is used when something is eluding you when you're trying to say something.
	For example, imagine that last night you watched a documentary about dik-diks (incredibly cute animals, look it up).
	And today you're at work, you want to tell your co-worker about this new animal that you learned about last night.
	But you just can't remember the name of the animal.
	It is as if it escaped from your mind.
	It would go something like this in Turkish:



	"Dün akşam bir belgesel izledim şeyler hakkında. Neydi ya? Böyle ufak sevimli savanda yaşayan şeyler... Heh dikdikler!



	Last night, I watched a documentary about the thingies... What was it?
	They're like, little cute, living-in-the-savannah thingies... Ah, dik-diks!



	In the case above, şey replaces a noun. Now let's see an example for a verb:


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 <tbody>
 <tr data-item="28584"></tr>
		<tr data-item="217062"></tr>
 </tbody>
</table>


	As you can see, when used with a verb, it takes the auxiliary verb yapmak in order to be conjugated.
	You cannot say şeyiyor or şeyecek, so you need an auxiliary verb to do that.



	Here's an example for replacing a clause:


<table class="ui celled table">
 <tbody>
 <tr data-item="28586"></tr>
		 <tr>
			<td>Ceren'le beraber gittiğimiz tatilden beri görüşmedik.</td>
 <td>We haven't met up with Ceren since the vacation we went on together.</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>


	Here, şey replaces the whole going on vacation together.
	Move onto practice to see more examples and strengthen your understanding.

Şey: the single most important word in Turkish

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

Compound nouns

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

Telling time

The instrumentative

The definite simple past

Food

Nuts

Countries

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The weather

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Nationalities

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The definite past of "to be"

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In the kitchen

The infinitive with case suffixes

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