Learn Turkish: Yeni bir kablo almak üzereyim. - I am about to buy a new cable.

The structure -mAk üzere means 'about to' or 'on the verge of' doing an action. Here, we use the infinitive almak (to buy) followed by the word üzere. To say 'I am', we add the personal suffix -im. Because üzere ends in a vowel, we must insert the buffer letter -y-, giving us üzereyim.

Can I use different personal suffixes with the -mAk üzere structure?

Yes! You simply treat üzere as if it were a regular adjective and attach the standard 'to be' personal endings to it. For example, if you wanted to say 'She is about to buy', it would just be almak üzere, and 'We are about to buy' would be almak üzereyiz.

Why is the word order yeni bir kablo instead of bir yeni kablo?

In Turkish, when you use an adjective with the indefinite article bir (a/an), the standard rule is Adjective + bir + Noun. Therefore, 'a new cable' translates as yeni bir kablo, describing the noun before adding the article.

I thought almak meant 'to take'. Why is it translated as 'to buy' here?