More expressions with etmek

etmek, the busiest light verb

You already use teşekkür etmek, davet etmek, dikkat etmek and a dozen more. Here are the remaining everyday ones, together with the bare nouns behind them.

to give as a presenthediye etmek is *to give as a present* — different from simply *vermek*, because it marks the giving as a gift. to guess, to predicttahmin etmek is *to guess* or *to predict*, and to insistısrar etmek *to insist*.

The nouns behind the verbs

Three of these nouns are worth knowing on their own:

— attention, care — check, control — need — to need

noun	its verb
attention, care	dikkat
dikkat etmek — to pay attention
check, inspection	kontrol
kontrol etmek — to check
need	ihtiyaç
to need	ihtiyaç duymak

Note that ihtiyaç takes duymak (to hear, to feel), not etmek. You can also say ihtiyacım var — I have a need — which is commoner still in speech.

Dikkat! on its own is the warning you will see on signs: Careful!