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<p>
	Turkish has two suffixes that are used for past tense.
	You have already seen <strong>-Dİ</strong>, and in this lesson you will learn about <strong>-mİş</strong>.
</p>

<p>
	In Turkish, we use <strong>-Dİ</strong> for things that we witnessed firsthand, or for things we are absolutely sure happened.
	We use <strong>-mİş</strong> for events that we have not witnessed ourselves, but heard from others.
	For example if one says:
</p>

<table class="ui celled table">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
			<td>Kamil dün kalp krizi geçirdi.</td>
			<td>Kamil had a heart attack yesterday. </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	One would understand from this sentence that the speaker was present when the attack happened, that he saw it with his own eyes.
	However if one says:
</p>

<table class="ui celled table">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Kamil dün kalp krizi geçir<strong>miş</strong>.</td>
			<td>(Apparently) Kamil had a heart attack yesterday.</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	One would understand from this sentence that the speaker heard about the attack from someone else.
	Even if we heard it from Kamil himself, we still use the <strong>-mİş</strong> form.
</p>

<p>
	The suffix <strong>-mİş</strong> is also used when making inferences.
	For example, if you see your boss' jacket on the coathanger, you infer that he arrived in the office and you say:
</p>

<table class="ui celled table">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Patron gel<strong>miş</strong>.</td>
            <td>(Apparently) the boss arrived.</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	To say <strong>Patron geldi</strong> would imply that you actually saw the boss coming in.
	This is the difference between <strong>-Dİ</strong> and <strong>-mİş</strong>.
</p>

<p>
	Now, you may think "Wow, did you all <em>really</em> need a suffix for this differentiation? Like seriously?"
	But beware, this suffix is used a lot, and if you use <strong>-Dİ</strong> where you should use <strong>-mİş</strong>, people will find this strange.
	Unless you are a foreigner of course, since most people will understand your confusion.
	The suffix <strong>-mİş</strong> is especially useful when gossiping, which you of course never do.
</p>

<p>
	When it is used combined with first person, it conveys the meaning that the speaker acted unknowingly, or did something so automatic that it was out of his/her consciousness.
	For example:
</p>

<table class="ui celled table">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
			<td>Bütün şişeyi iç<strong>miş</strong>im.</td>
            <td>I drank the whole bottle (apparently, without even realizing)</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	Here's the chart for the conjugation of evidential past.
</p>

<table class="ui celled definition table">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Evidential Past Tense</th>
            <th>Singular</th>
            <th>Plural</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>First person</td>
            <td>-mİş<strong>İm</strong></td>
            <td>-mİş<strong>İz</strong></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Second person</td>
            <td>-mİş<strong>sİn</strong></td>
            <td>-mİş<strong>sİnİz</strong></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Third person</td>
            <td>-mİş</td>
			<td>-mİş<strong>(lEr)</strong></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

The evidential past suffix -mİş

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

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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

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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

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Counting larger numbers

Using numbers and quantifiers

A bit much and more and less

Animals

Telling time

The instrumentative

The definite simple past

Food

Nuts

Countries

Traffic and directions

The weather

With and without

Nationalities

Question	Answer
to remain	kalmak
[Apparently] There is no tea left at home.	Evde hiç çay kalmamış.
[APPARENTLY] Kamil's closest friend died.	Kamil'in en yakın arkadaşı ölmüş.
last, in the past^{A MEASURE OF TIME}	geçen
to be chosen; to be elected	seçilmek
[Apparently] Last week, the new president of America was elected.	Geçen hafta Amerika'nın yeni başkanı seçilmiş.
resignation	istifa
to resign, to quit^{A JOB}	istifa etmek
I heard that you quit your job. [Apparently]	Duydum ki istifa etmişsin.
to faint	bayılmak
[Apparently] I ate a lot of food and I fainted.	Fazla yemek yemişim ve bayılmışım.
[Apparently] We drank all the wine.	Bütün şarabı içmişiz. In this example, you could also say "şarapları" to refer to multiple bottles of wine.
[Apparently] German engineers built this machine.	Bu makineyi Alman mühendisler yapmışlar.

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