Learn Turkish: Gelecek hafta kredi borcumu ödeyeceğim.

Gelecek hafta kredi borcumu ödeyeceğim.

Next week I will pay my loan debt.

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Questions & Answers about Gelecek hafta kredi borcumu ödeyeceğim.

Why does ödeyeceğim have a ğ instead of a k?

The future tense suffix is normally -ecek or -acak. However, when you add a first-person ending that starts with a vowel (like -im for "I" or -iz for "we"), the hard k softens to a ğ. So instead of "ödeyecekim", it smoothly becomes ödeyeceğim.

Why is there a y in the middle of ödeyeceğim?

The verb stem is öde- (to pay), which ends in a vowel. The future suffix -ecek also starts with a vowel. In Turkish, you usually can't have two vowels right next to each other, so the buffer letter y is added to keep them apart: öde + y + eceğ + im.

I know the word for "debt" is borç. Why is it spelled borcumu here?

This is an example of consonant mutation. When a word ends in a hard consonant like ç, and you add a suffix starting with a vowel, the consonant softens. Here, the ç in borç changes to a c when you add the "my" suffix (-um) to make borcum.

What are the two u vowels doing at the end of borcumu?