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Causative suffixes are attached to intransitive verbs to make them transitive.



	They also attach to transitive verbs to indicate further involvement of another object/agent.
	In this case, this other agent is an indirect object receiving a dative suffix, since the original verb already took a direct object.


<table class="ui celled table">
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <td>I made my aunt buy leather from the market.</td>
			<td>Teyzeme çarşıdan deri aldırdım.</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>


	Unfortunately there are six forms of this suffix, and the rules for using them are not entirely regular.
	The suffixes are:


-Dİr : öldürmek (to kill), aldırmak (to make someone buy)
-t : kısaltmak (to make something shorter), tanıtmak (to introduce someone or something)
-İt : sapıtmak (to go haywire), korkutmak (to scare someone)
-İr : bitirmek (to end something), düşürmek (to drop something)
-Ar : çıkarmak (to extract something) 
-Art : çökertmek (to make something collapse)


	The causative suffix is -t for all polysyllabic verbs that end in an r or an l,
	and there are about 30 monosyllabic verbs for which the suffix is either -İt, -İr, -Ar or -Art.



	All other verbs take -Dİr as the causative suffix, which is the most common form.



Additionaly, there are some verbs that don't follow any of the six rules above, the most common of which you can see below.

<table class="ui celled table">
 <thead>
 <tr>
 <th>Turkish Intransitive</th>
 <th>English </th>
			<th>Turkish Transitive</th>
			<th>English</th>
 </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <td>girmek</td>
 <td>to enter</td>
			<td>sokmak</td>
			<td>to insert, to make it enter</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>gelmek</td>
 <td>to come</td>
			<td>getirmek</td>
			<td>to bring, to make it come</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>gitmek</td>
 <td>to go</td>
			<td>götürmek</td>
			<td>to take it (away from the speaker)</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>kalkmak</td>
 <td>to rise up</td>
			<td>kaldırmak</td>
			<td>to lift, to raise</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

The causative suffixes

noun

adjective

determiner

verb

adverb

postposition

interjection

conjunction

pronoun

sentence

phrase

Unknown

NOUN - vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

VERB - intransitive, passive

VERB - intransitive, non-passive

VERB - transitive, non-causative

VERB - transitive, causative

VERB - ablative

VERB - dative

VERB - locative

VERB - accusative

VERB - intransitive, reciprocal

VERB - intransitive, reflexive

VERB - auxiliary

Counting to 10

Fruits

The days of the week

The months of the year

Demonstratives

Adjectives

Vegetables

Animals extended

Hello and goodbye

Colors

First degree family

Nouns and articles

Plural nouns and minor vowel harmony

Personal pronouns

The verb "to be"

There is and there are

The infinitive and the stem

The imperative and major vowel harmony

The present continuous

The locative case suffix

The accusative case suffix

The dative case suffix

Final consonant harmony

Negative verbs

Questions in the present continuous

Questions with the verb "to be"

The imperative

The imperative forms of yemek and demek

Different uses of the present continuous

Irregular verbs

The Turkish alphabet

The indefinite article and the number one

The negative form of "to be"

Question words

Meeting people

Conjunctions

Stress inside questions

Locative location pronouns

Dative and ablative location pronouns

Accusative and locative personal pronouns

The genitive case suffix

Genitive personal pronouns

Extended family

The possession suffix

Dative and ablative personal pronouns

Expressing possession with var and yok

Clothing

The head and related parts

Compound nouns

Body parts

Combining suffixes

Water and the possession suffix

Vowel elimination on suffixation

Location postpositions

Location postpositions 2

Extra vocabulary and expressions

The ablative case suffix

Wearing things

Demonstratives with case suffixes

Counting larger numbers

Using numbers and quantifiers

A bit much and more and less

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The instrumentative

The definite simple past

Food

Nuts

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Traffic and directions

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With and without

Nationalities

Question	Answer
to make someone take; to make someone buy	aldırmak
market, bazaar, marketplace	çarşı
leather	deri
I made my aunt buy leather from the market.	Teyzeme çarşıdan deri aldırdım.
cuffs of pants, lower part of trousers near the foot	paça
tailor	terzi
to cut down on, to reduce	kısmak
to get shortened, to contract, to shrink	kısalmak
to shorten, to make it shorter	kısaltmak
Go to the tailor, shorten the cuffs of your pants.	Terziye git, pantolonunun paçalarını kısalt.
killer, murderer	katil
Kamil is a murderer.	Kamil katil.
fear, horror	korku
to scare	korkutmak
The killer scared all of us.	Katil hepimizi korkuttu.
project	proje
kind, variety, species	tür
in time	zamanında
We can't finish a project of this kind in time.	Bu tür bir projeyi zamanında bitiremeyiz.
to insert	sokmak
to raise, to lift	kaldırmak
to sink, to submerge^INTRANSITIVE; to fail^INTRANSITIVE	batmak
to sink, to submerge^TRANSITIVE; to fail^TRANSITIVE	batırmak
ocean	okyanus
Pacific Ocean	Pasifik Okyanusu
submarine	denizaltı
Germans sunk all our submarines in the Pacific Ocean.	Almanlar Pasifik Okyanusu'ndaki bütün denizaltılarımızı batırdı.

Turkish 147 - The causative suffixes

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