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gelmek - to come
gitmek - to go
yemek - to eat
sevmek - to love
yapmak - to do
olmak - to be
kalmak - to stay
istemek - to want
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To make the simple present tense into a negative sentence in Turkish, eg ‘i do not go’, add the following endings onto the verb;

-mem - i don’t....
-mezsin - you don’t...(singular/familiar)
-mez - he/she/it doesn’t...
-meyiz - we don’t...
-mezsiniz - you don’t...(plural/polite)
-mezler - they don’t....

(change the vowels in the suffix according to vowel harmony, eg ‘-mam‘, '-mayız', 'mazlar')

examples

‘gelmem’ = ‘i don’t come’
‘gitmezsin’ = ‘you don’t go’
‘kalmaz’ = he doesn’t stay’
etc






Asking questions in the negative simple present tense

To ask a question in this tense, add '-mez/maz' after the verb and then add the question marker with the personal ending.

examples

gelmez miyim? - do i not come?
kalmaz mısn? - do you (singular/familiar) not stay?
gitmez mi? - does he not go?
kalmaz mıyz? - do we not stay?
gelmez misiniz? - do you (plural/polite) not come?
okumazlar mı? - do they not read? *

* (as always with questions, the third personal plural is different and the question marker is always at the end of the sentence, after the suffix)

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