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### Imminent Actions

To express that an action is on the very verge of happening, Turkish uses a vivid reduplication pattern. You simply state the verb in the third-person past tense, and immediately follow it with the exact same verb in the third-person future tense.

The formula is: **Verb (Past 3rd Person) + Verb (Future 3rd Person)**

For example, using the verb **doğurmak** (to give birth), combining **doğurdu** (she gave birth) and **doğuracak** (she will give birth) creates the phrase **doğurdu doğuracak**, meaning "she is just about to give birth."

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This pattern is perfect for high-anticipation moments, such as when contractions (**sancı**) begin.

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### The Delivery Room

As the delivery approaches, you might wait outside the delivery room (**doğumhane**) for the midwife (**ebe**) to bring good news (**müjde**). The imminent action pattern works with any verb to describe these tense moments.

For example, **girmek** (to enter) becomes **girdi girecek** (just about to enter), and **vermek** (to give) becomes **verdi verecek** (just about to give).

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### Tending to the Baby

Once the baby arrives, the vocabulary shifts to newborn care, such as putting on a baby bodysuit (**zıbın**), breastfeeding (**emzirmek**), and placing the baby in a stroller (**puset**).

The imminent action pattern is often used to express urgency, like when a baby is on the verge of crying (**ağlamak**).

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Similarly, you can use it to describe an action someone is in the very process of doing, like putting (**koymak**) the baby down.

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### Double Anticipation

You can even chain these phrases together to describe a situation where multiple things are on the verge of happening at once.

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Imminent actions (geldi gelecek)

adjective

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

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pronoun

sentence

verb

Demonstrative pronouns (bu, şu, o)

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Plural nouns (-lar, -ler)

I am and you are (-(y)ım, -sın)

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Negative statements (değil)

Yes and no questions (mı, mi, mu, mü)

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Numbers 1 to 10 (bir, iki, üç)

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The locative case (-da, -de)

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Asking where (nerede)

There is / there are (var)

There is not / there are not (yok)

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Infinitive verbs (-mak, -mek)

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Basic word order

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Present continuous personal suffixes (-iyorum)

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The time question word (ne zaman)

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Verbs taking the dative case (-e / -a)

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Time origin (beri)

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Comparisons of similarity (gibi)

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Perspectives (göre)

Verbal nouns (-mA / -mE)

Verbal nouns as objects (-mAyI / -mEyI)

Verbal nouns with the dative (-mAyA / -mEyA)

General necessity (lazım / gerek)

Personal necessity (-mAm lazım)

Third-person commands (-sIn / -sInlAr)

First person singular optative (-(y)AyIm)

Question	Answer
to give birth	doğurmak
The pregnant woman is about to give birth.	Hamile kadın doğurdu doğuracak.
labor pain / contraction (medical)	sancı
Her contractions started, she is about to give birth.	Sancıları başladı, doğurdu doğuracak.
delivery room	doğumhane
They closed the door of the delivery room so that nobody enters.	Kimse girmesin diye doğumhanenin kapısını kapattılar.
midwife	ebe
The midwife is about to enter the delivery room.	Ebe doğumhaneye girdi girecek.
good news	müjde
The midwife is about to give us the good news.	Ebe bize müjdeyi verdi verecek.
I heard the midwife giving the good news.	Ebeyi müjde verirken duydum.
ultrasound	ultrason
cesarean	sezaryen
The doctor looked at the ultrasound and decided on a cesarean.	Doktor ultrasona baktı ve sezaryene karar verdi.
baby bodysuit	zıbın
I am looking at the baby's first bodysuit and the ultrasound photo crying.	Bebeğin ilk zıbınına ve ultrason fotoğrafına ağlaya ağlaya bakıyorum.
to breastfeed	emzirmek
I took off his bodysuit to breastfeed the baby.	Bebeği emzirmek için zıbınını çıkardım.
The baby is about to cry, breastfeed him immediately!	Bebek ağladı ağlayacak, hemen emzir!
stroller	puset
The father is about to put the baby in the stroller.	Baba bebeği pusete koydu koyacak.
After the cesarean, they put the baby in the stroller.	Sezaryenden sonra bebeği pusete koydular.
The contraction is about to start, the midwife is about to arrive.	Sancı başladı başlayacak, ebe geldi gelecek.