Turkish Suffixes
A Quick Reference


yapmak to do Infinitive
yap do! Imperative (informal)
yapın do! Imperative (formal, plural)
yapınız do! Imperative (public)
yapma don't do! Negative Imperative
yapıyorum I am doing Present Continuous
yaptım I did, I have done Definite Past
yapacağım I will do Future
yaparım I do Simple Present
yapmam I do not do Negative Simple Present
yapabilirim I can do Potential
yapamam I cannot do Negative Potential
yapmalıyım I must do, I should do Necessitative
yapmam lazım I need to do Necessitative
yapardım I used to do, I would do Simple Past
yapıyordum I was doing Past Continuous
yapmışım I supposedly do / I supposedly did Inferential
yapmıştım I had done Pluperfect
yapacaktım I was going to do Future Past
yaptırmak to have done Causatıve
yıkanmak to wash oneself Reflexive
yapışmak to cling to Reciprocal
yapılıyorum I'm being done Passive
yapıp geldim I did it and came Conjunction
yapmayı seviyorum I like to do Short Infinitive
yapayım let me do Subjunctıve
yapalım let's do Subjunctıve
yapalı since I did Subjunctıve
yapsın he should do, let him do Subjunctive
yaparsam If I do Open Conditional
yapsaydım If I had done it Closed Conditional
yaparak by doing Adverb
yaparken while doing Adverb
yapınca as soon as I do it, as soon as I did it Adverb
yaptiğım the one that I did Participle
yapacağım the one that I will do Participle
yapan the one that's doing, the one that did Participle
yapacak the one who will do Participle
yapmış that was done Participle
yapmadan without doing Subordinate Clause
yapmadan önce before doing Subordinate Clause
yapar yapmaz as soon as it's done Subordinate Clause
yaptığımda when I do, when I did Subordinate Clause
yaptıktan sonra after doing Subordinate Clause
yaptığımdan because I do/did Subordinate Clause
yaptığım için because I do/did Subordinate Clause
yaptığım kadar as much as I do/did Subordinate Clause
yaptığım halde although I do/did Subordinate Clause
yaptığım gibi as soon as I do/did Subordinate Clause
yaptığım takdirde in the event of my doing Subordinate Clause