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Table of Contents

Table of Contents. 1

1 Introduction. 1

2 Letters of the alphabet 2

3 Some rules on words and sounds. 2

4 Some rules on grammar 3

5 First rule of vowel harmony. 3

6 Second rule of vowel harmony, and suffixes. 3

7 Suffix declination according to the rules of vowel harmony. 3

8 Harmony rules on consonants. 4

9 Stress in a name. 4

10 Stress in a sentence. 4

11 Stress with suffixes. 4

12 Suffix of plural 5

13 Suffixes for: five states of the name. 5

14 Personal pronouns: I, you, he/she/it, we, you, they. 5

15 Negation: word and suffixes for "not" 5

16 Suffix of question. 6

17 To be. 6

18 Four simple tenses with "to be" 7

19 Past tense with -di 9

20 More on past tenses: -miş, -di 9

21 The definite/indefinite articles: the/a/- 9

22 "to" + stem of a verb. 10

23 Name form of a verb. 10

24 Imperative: do! 10

25 Let me, let us. 10

26 Want, want to. 11

27 "can" / "be able to" 11

28 There is, there isn't 11

29 To have.