Questions & Answers about Ben çok erken emeklemişim.
Why does the verb end in -mişim instead of -dim?
The suffix -miş is the 'evidential' or 'reported' past tense. Because the speaker was a baby when they crawled, they do not have a personal memory of it. They only know they crawled early because their parents told them, so they must use -miş instead of the direct past tense -di.
What is the root verb here, and how are the suffixes attached?
The verb is emeklemek (to crawl). To build this word, we take the root emekle-, add the reported past tense suffix -miş, and finally add the personal suffix -im to mean 'I'.
Why do we use the personal suffix -im at the end of emeklemişim instead of just -m like we do in emekledim?
The reported past tense (-miş) uses the standard personal suffixes (the 'to be' endings), just like the present tenses do. So for 'I', you use -im. The direct past tense (-di) is an exception in Turkish and uses a different set of endings that look more like possessive suffixes (like the -m in emekledim).
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