The Indicative Mood
Turkish Verbs Tenses (including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)
Click on the verb tense name to see the conjugation with example sentences...
- Present Continuous Simple Tense -- geliyorum; I am coming...
- Simple (Aorist) 'Wide' Tense -- gelirim; I come, I'll come -- a verbal 'factoid' about this tense...
- Present Dubitative Continuous Compound Tense (used for hearsay) -- geliyormuşum; It's said that I'm coming...
- Present Continuous, Compound Conditional Tense -- geliyorsam ; If I'm coming...
- Present Dubitative Simple Compound Tense (used for hearsay) -- gelirmişim; It's said that I would come (used to come)...
- Present Simple Compound Conditional Tense -- gelirsem; If I come, if I should/would come...
- Present Perfect Continuous Tense -- gelmekteyim; I have been coming...
- Past Continuous Compound Narrative Tense -- geliyordum; I was coming...
- Present Perfect Tense -- I have come...
- Past, Definite Tense -- geldim; I came, I did come...
- (Timeless) Past, Simple Compound Narrative Tense -- gelirdim; I would come, I used to come...
- Colloquial Past, Compound Narrative -- I had come, I came, I have come...
- Past Definite, Compound Conditional -- geldiysem; If I came, if I have come...
- Past Dubitative, Simple -- It's said that I came (have come)...
- Past Perfect, Compound Narrative -- gelmiştim; I had come...
- Past Perfect, Continuous -- gelmekteydim (gelmekte idim); I had been coming...
- Past, Dubitative Compound (a tense for sarcasm) -- gelmişmişim; It's said that I had come...
- Past Dubitative, Compound Conditional ... -- gelmişsem; If I have come...
- Future, Simple -- geleceğim; I will come...
- Future Continuous -- geliyor olacağım; I shall be coming...
- Future Perfect Continuous -- gelmekte olacağım; I shall have been coming...
- Future Perfect (Past in the Future) -- gelmiş olacağım; I shall/will have come...
- Future in the past -- gelecektim; I was going to come (about to come...)
- Future, Dubitative Compound -- gelecekmişim; It's said that I'm going to come...
- Future, Compound Conditional -- geleceksem; If I'm going to come...
The Abilitative Mood
Turkish Verbs Tenses -- expressing potential actions... (including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)
- Simple Tense -- gelebilirim;
I can come [at all times], I am able to come, I'm in a position to come...
- Present Continuous Tense -- gelebiliyorum; I can/may come [right now], I may be able to come...
- Dubitative Past Tense -- gelebilmişim; It is said that I was able to come...
- Definite Past -- gelebildim; I was able (could) to come...
- Past Continuous Tense -- gelebiliyordum; I was able (could) to come...
- Definite Past Perfect, Simple Tense -- gelebilirdim; I could have come, I would have been able to come...
The Necessitative Mood
Turkish Verbs Tenses -- expressing a requirement or obligation... (including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)
- Simple Tense -- gelmeliyim; I must come, I have to come, I should come...
- Past Narrative Compound -- gelmeliydim; I should have come, I ought to have come...
- Past Compound, Dubitative -- It's said that I should have come...
- Other Necessitative, with gerekmek -- gelmem gerekiyor; I'll have to come (my coming is necessary)
The Imperative Mood
Turkish Verbs Tense -- expressing a command or request... (including positive, negative examples. Interrogative, and negative interrogative examples are not applicable.)
- The Imperative -- gel, gelin, geliniz; [you] come...
- The Imperative -- formed using conditional sufixes; -sene, -senize, -sana, -sanıza
The Optative Mood
Turkish Verbs Tenses -- expressing a desire, wish, or condition... (including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)
- Simple Tense -- gelsem; If I come, if I would come, if I came...
- Past, Compound Narrative -- If I had come, If only I had come, If I came...
- Past, Compound Dubitative (used for hearsay) -- It's said that if I have come...
The Subjunctive Mood
Turkish Verbs Tenses -- expressing a wish, doubt, or probability... (including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)
- Simple -- let me come, (so) that I may come...
- Past, Conditional -- Keşke ... gelseydim --
If only I had come...; I wish I
had come...
- Past, Compound Reportative (a tense for literature) -- geleymişim; I wished I had come...
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