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### Gossiping About Regrets: The Reported Conditional

Turkish allows you to combine the conditional suffix (**-sa** / **-se**) with the inferential copula (**-mış** / **-miş**) to talk about hypothetical situations based on hearsay. This is the perfect structure for gossiping about other people's regrets or missed opportunities.

To form this, take the verb stem, add the conditional suffix, attach the buffer letter **-y-**, and follow it with the inferential suffix. For negative verbs, insert the negative suffix (**-ma** / **-me**) before the conditional.

Since gossip is usually about a third party ("he," "she," or "they"), this lesson focuses on the third-person singular forms: **-saymış** and **-seymiş**.

| Verb | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| yapmak (to do) | yapsaymış | yapmasaymış |
| gitmek (to go) | gitseymiş | gitmeseymiş |

### Reported Wishes with "Keşke"

When paired with **keşke** (if only / I wish), this structure expresses a reported regret. Instead of a direct "I wish he had done that," it translates to "I hear he wishes he had..." or "Apparently she regrets not..."

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### Hearsay Conditionals: "They say if he had..."

You can also use **-saymış** to set up a reported "if" clause. When discussing how things *could* have gone differently for someone else, the condition clause uses **-saymış**, and the result clause uses the reported aorist (**-ırmış** / **-armış** for affirmative, or **-mazmış** for negative).

This neatly translates to: "Rumor has it if he had [condition], he would have [result]."

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Reported conditionals and wishes (-saymış)

adjective

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

particle

postposition

preposition

pronoun

sentence

verb

Demonstrative pronouns (bu, şu, o)

Basic question words (kim, ne)

Plural nouns (-lar, -ler)

I am and you are (-(y)ım, -sın)

We, you, and they are (-(y)ız, -sınız)

Negative statements (değil)

Yes and no questions (mı, mi, mu, mü)

Questions with 'to be' (mısın, mıyım)

Numbers 1 to 10 (bir, iki, üç)

Numbers 11 to 20 (on bir, on iki)

Numbers by tens to 100 (otuz, kırk...)

Counting objects (tane)

The locative case (-da, -de)

Consonant assimilation (-ta, -te)

Asking where (nerede)

There is / there are (var)

There is not / there are not (yok)

Asking how many (kaç)

Infinitive verbs (-mak, -mek)

Informal commands (git, gel)

Negative commands (-ma, -me)

Polite and plural commands (-In, -InIz)

Basic word order

Present continuous for consonant roots (-iyor)

Present continuous for vowel roots (-iyor)

Present continuous personal suffixes (-iyorum)

Negative present continuous (-miyor)

Present continuous questions (-iyor mu)

Future plans with present continuous

The dative case (-(y)a, -(y)e)

Consonant mutation (k, t, p, ç to ğ, d, b, c)

From or out of (-dan / -den)

Directional question words (nereye, nereden)

First and second person possessives (-(i)m, -(i)n)

Third person possessive (-(s)i)

Plural possessives (-imiz, -iniz, -leri)

The genitive case (-(n)in)

Definite noun compounds (-nin ... -si)

Indefinite noun compounds (bare noun + -(s)i)

Possessive buffer letter (n)

Spatial postpositions (içinde, üstünde)

The definite direct object (-(y)ı, -(y)i)

Object question words (kimi, neyi)

Adjectives modifying nouns

Manner and choice questions (nasıl, hangi)

Basic degree modifiers (çok, biraz)

Comparisons (daha, en)

Days of the week

Months of the year

The time question word (ne zaman)

Telling time (saat, buçuk)

Asking the time (saat kaç, saat kaçta)

Basic conjunctions (ve, ama, veya)

Causality conjunction (çünkü)

Means and accompaniment (ile, -(y)lA)

Purpose and beneficiaries (için)

Expressing desire (-mak istemek)

The past copula (-(y)DI)

The direct past tense (-DI)

Past tense personal suffixes (-DIm, -DIn)

Past tense negative (-mAdI)

Past tense questions (-DI mI)

Ordinal numbers (-(I)ncI)

Greetings and politeness

Saying 'too' (de, da)

Conversation fillers (şey, yani, hadi)

Conversational essentials

Reflexive pronouns (kendim, kendin)

Reciprocal pronouns (birbiri)

Indefinite pronouns for people (herkes, kimse)

Indefinite pronouns for things and places (her şey, hiçbir şey)

Conjunctions of consequence (bu yüzden, bu nedenle)

Correlative conjunctions (hem... hem, ne... ne)

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

Verbs taking the ablative case (-den / -dan)

Time origin (beri)

Time duration (-DIr)

Comparisons of similarity (gibi)

Comparisons of equality (kadar)

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
advice	nasihat
to pay attention / to care (to mind)	aldırış etmek
I hear he wishes he had paid a little attention to his father's advice.	Keşke babasının nasihatine biraz aldırış etseymiş.
They say if he had studied more for the exam, he would have gotten into that university.	Sınava daha çok çalışsaymış, o üniversiteyi kazanırmış.
I hear he wishes he hadn't acted so angry at the meeting.	Keşke toplantıda o kadar sinirli davranmasaymış.
wastefulness	savurganlık
plot of land	arsa
Rumor has it if he had bought a plot of land with that money instead of being wasteful, he would be very rich.	Savurganlık yapmak yerine o parayla bir arsa alsaymış, çok zengin olurmuş.
They say if he had known that the plot of land was very valuable, he would never have sold it.	Arsanın çok değerli olduğunu bilseymiş, asla satmazmış.
attitude / behavior (stance)	tutum
luck / destiny (one's lot)	kısmet
They say if his attitude at the interview had been more positive, that job would have been his.	Görüşmedeki tutumu daha olumlu olsaymış, o iş ona kısmet olurmuş.
They say if he had checked the address on the map, he wouldn't have gotten lost in the forest.	Adresi haritadan kontrol etseymiş, ormanda kaybolmazmış.
will / testament	vasiyet
to consider / to look after	gözetmek
I hear they wish his grandfather had considered the poor in his will too.	Keşke dedesi vasiyetinde fakirleri de gözetseymiş.
Apparently it was necessary to book the hotel when he was going to go on holiday; I hear he wishes he hadn't waited so long.	Tatile çıkacağı zaman oteli ayırtmak lazımmış; keşke o kadar beklemeseymiş.
I hear he wishes he had rested a bit instead of running until he was exhausted.	Keşke yorulasıya kadar koşmak yerine biraz dinlenseymiş.
I hear she wishes she had opened that shop and become the boss of her own business.	Keşke o dükkânı açsaymış da kendi işinin patronu olsaymış.
Apparently he thought the exam was difficult; I hear he wishes he hadn't stressed this much.	Sınavın zor olduğunu sanıyormuş; keşke bu kadar stres yapmasaymış.
wealth / fortune (money, riches)	servet
I wish he had reportedly paid attention to the advice and hadn't spent his fortune with extravagance.	Keşke nasihatlere aldırış etseymiş ve servetini savurganlıkla harcamasaymış.
reputation	itibar
I wish he had reportedly considered his grandfather's will and his own reputation more.	Keşke dedesinin vasiyetini ve kendi itibarını daha çok gözetseymiş.
If he had reportedly given up on that bad attitude, this fortune and reputation would reportedly have been his destiny.	O kötü tutumundan vazgeçseymiş, bu servet ve itibar ona kısmet olurmuş.