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Usages of akşam
İyi akşamlar.
Good evening.
akşamlar
evenings
bu akşam
this evening; tonight
akşam yemeği
dinner
Ne hoş bir akşam.
What a pleasant evening.
Cansu akşam varır buraya.
Cansu will arrive here in the evening.
Bazı akşamlar Kamil eve gelmez.
Kamil does not come home some evenings.
O akşam toplantıya gelmeyebilirim.
I might not come to the meeting that evening.
Akşam eve dön ki baban kızmasın.
Return home in the evening not to let your dad get angry.
Here the -sın ending turns the verb into a third person imperative. So instead of saying do X to a person it says let person Y do X.
Bu akşam yemek yapacaktım.
I was going to cook tonight.
Pazar akşamı ablam ile sinemaya gittiydik.
Sunday night we had went to the cinema with my sister.INFORMAL
Dişim ağrırsa akşamki maça gelemem.
If my tooth hurts, I can't come to the match this evening.
akşamleyin
in the evening, eveningtime
Dün akşam ananas yedik.
Yesterday evening we ate a pineapple.
dün akşam
yesterday night
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Turkish uses vowel harmony, meaning the vowels in suffixes change to match the last vowel of the word. Turkish vowels are divided into front (e, i, ö, ü) and back (a, ı, o, u) groups. Suffixes will use front or back vowels to harmonize with the root word.
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