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Major Vowel Harmony Lookup

Vowel harmony is one of the most fundamental and important aspects of Turkish grammar. Turkish
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words generally obey two vowel harmony rules, called the major vowel harmony and the minor
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vowel harmony. More important than the words obeying these rules, there are ways these rules
change the vowels in the suffixes added to words. A good understanding of these rules is necessary New in Forums
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to be able to use suffixes, hence to be able to make correct and meaningful sentences. ulak: ... ... ya da ... olsalarda, herkesin yemek ... ...
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vowels. There are 4 hard vowels and 4 soft vowels. Turkish to English
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Hard vowels: a, ı, o, u 5 kilo fazlam var...
Abla: Thank you for your answers, AlphaF, gokuyu
Soft vowels: e, i, ö, ü ikicihan.
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Words of Turkish origin generally (not always) have all hard or all soft vowels. This is just a turkish to english please
generalization that you won´t use for constructing Turkish words and sentences. Words that have sam1: ...
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hard and soft vowels together are said to violate the major vowel harmony. A word that violates the insallah: Selam Cnm, bizi hatirladin yine, cok sag
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Each of the hard vowels are the hard counterparts of one soft vowel (and vice versa). Following this Please let me know if I...
rule, vowels can be paired with their counterparts as follows: seni annen mi giydirdi?
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A Turkish word is either a hard word or a soft word depending on its last vowel.

ev[home] is a soft word since its last and only vowel, e, is a soft vowel.
okul[school] is a hard word since its last vowel, u, is a hard vowel.
kahve[coffee] is a soft word since its last vowel, e, is a soft vowel.

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Now, try to guess if the following words are hard or soft. The correct answers are below the table.
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Word Hard or Soft
meslek[job] ?
araba[car] ? Profile of tunci
güzel[beautiful] ?
yemek[food] ?
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gülümse[smile] ?
çabuk[quick] ?
gül[rose] ?
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göl[lake] ?
gidelim[let´s go] ?
telefon[telephone] ?
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(Correct answers: soft, hard, soft, soft, soft, hard, soft, soft, soft, hard)
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Major vowel harmony states that: Alphabet

Any suffix appended to a hard word must have hard vowels Turkish lesson by admin
Any suffix appended to a soft word must have soft vowels Level: beginner
Lesson 4: Names of nations
countries
As an example to this rule let´s consider the suffix -de. When added to a noun, this suffix gives the
meaning of "at/in the location expressed by that noun". When added to a soft word like ev[home], Turkish lesson by metehan
this suffix is -de. However, when added to a hard word like okul[school], the soft vowels in this Level: beginner
suffix are replaced by their hard counterparts and the suffix becomes -da. Hence:
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at home --> evde
at school --> okulda Noun states

in the car --> arabada

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at the lake --> gölde Level: beginner

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why is it that "okuldan" doesn´t mean "from school"? Report

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guzel ^^ Report

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