Imminent Action: "-mak üzere"
When your phone is at 1% or a download is at 99%, the action is "about to" happen. In Turkish, you express that an action is on the verge of happening by using the full infinitive of the verb (-mak or -mek) followed by the word üzere.
| The phone's battery is about to die. | Telefonun şarjı bitmek üzere. |
| This old cable is about to break. | Bu eski kablo kopmak üzere. |
You can also ask if something is about to happen by adding the question particle mi after üzere.
| Is the internet connection about to drop? | İnternet bağlantısı kopmak üzere mi? |
Adding Personal Endings
Because üzere acts as the predicate of the sentence, it takes the "to be" personal suffixes to show who is about to do the action.
Since üzere ends in a vowel, remember to use the buffer y for "I" and "we". The suffixes will always be the same because üzere does not change its vowels:
| Pronoun | Form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Ben | üzereyim | I am about to |
| Sen | üzeresin | You are about to |
| O | üzere | He/she/it is about to |
| Biz | üzereyiz | We are about to |
| Siz | üzeresiniz | You (pl.) are about to |
| Onlar | üzereler | They are about to |
| I am about to buy a new cable. | Yeni bir kablo almak üzereyim. |
| They are about to set up a new device for the connection. | Bağlantı için yeni bir cihaz kurmak üzereler. |
| We are about to send a new notification to the customer. | Müşteriye yeni bir bildirim göndermek üzereyiz. |
System Updates and Installations
Let's look at a few more examples of imminent actions in the context of apps, updates, and software installations.
| My computer is about to shut down. | Bilgisayarım kapanmak üzere. |
| The update of this application is about to finish. | Bu uygulamanın güncellemesi bitmek üzere. |
| I am about to upload the file to the server. | Dosyayı sunucuya yüklemek üzereyim. |
| We are about to restart the program. | Programı tekrar başlatmak üzereyiz. |
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