201 Turkish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses

by Talât Sait Halman

The 201 most commonly used Turkish verbs are transliterated into the Roman alphabet and presented one to a page. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812020340
• ISBN13: 9780812020342
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Useful book

Turkish has the wonderful distinction of being one of the few languages I've seen with completely regular verbs, unlike Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and most of the world's other major languages that I've seen books on. Japanese and Chinese are the only other ones I know that come close, as the number of irregular verbs can be counted on the fingers of one hand. It would be interesting to know how many are like this, and perhaps some of the other Uralic languages like Turkish are too. As I said, Japanese is the only other one I know like this, and in fact there are only two irregular verbs in Japanese. Chinese, if I remember right, is also very regular since it doesn't even inflect for person or number, and I suspect the other Han Chinese family languages are similarly regular because of this, but I can't speak for the other tonal languages such as Thai and Vietnamese, but I assume Cantonese and Hakka are very regular too like Mandarin. I also don't know how the other southeast Asian family languages compare, such as Mon, Khmer (Cambodian), Burmese, or the many other language groups and dialects in southeast Asia such as Hmong in the Mon-Khmer group. The other groups are the Bahnaric group, which includes languages like Sedang and Halang; the Senoic group, which includes Semai and Temiar; Nicorbarese, which includes Trinkat and Bompaka, Munda, which includes Juray and Remo, and the north Munda group, which includes Kork and Sora.Actually, come to think of it, Arabic is pretty good. It has ten different verb conjugation categories, and once you know those, you're all right. In fact, they're so regular the dictionaries actually refer to them by numbers I-X.But getting back to this book, as someone noted previously, because the verbs are completely regular, this book could probably have been about 15 pages long. The only other thing to learn is vowel harmony in Turkish, which isn't that difficult and fans of linguistics will recognize this concept from other languages where it occurs, such as in Hungarian, where it's very important. In phonetics, vowel harmony is a type of assimilation which occurs when vowels take on features of contrastive vowels elsewhere in a word or phrase. Once you know how this works, it's very difficult to misspell a word in Turkish, so even that's not really a problem. So overall, a fine book on Turkish verbs despite all the wasted wood pulp. :-)

A Necessary Addition to Your Collection

...if you're trying to learn Turkish and are past the simple phrase books, you will find this book an enormous help!This is a supplement, not complete by itself. Add a dictionary and a language course or two, and how happy you may be! Now, I only wanted to know the present, past and perhaps a bit of the future -- this gave me more than I needed or understood! It would have been helpful (for us low-brows) if it offered translations by tense. It gives the translation for the verb, but you're on your own to sort out Aortist/Present, Present Progressive, Future, Definite Past, Indefinite Past, Necessity, Opative (Subjunctive), Conditional and Imperative. Then again, it gives you an opportunity to research these tenses on your own.See notes by other reviewers - this book is evidently best for American English speakers. In addition, a reader from Scandinavia points out that there are needed definitions for some of the verbs (some do not match exactly the American translation).

"201 Turkish Verbs": a must have for any yabanci.

If you ever take a course in Turkish, this book is a must. If you ever intend to study on your own this book will be a tremendous resource.In your language course you will be called on to give endless example sentences, and eventually you run out of verbs, to your public disgrace. With this book in hand that unfortunate ever will never occur. Packed with "201 Turkish Verbs fully conjugated in all the tenses," this book will never leave you lacking a verb.In your private study this book will not disappoint you. All the verbs are indexed in both Turkish and English. There are pages dedicated to the basics of grammar, and other pages addressing the integration of the negative particle as well as the interrogative particle.While I was learning Turkish, if I ever forgot the conjugation rule, I never looked back at my notes. Instead, I opened "201 Turkish Verbs" to remind myself of the rules.I can think of only one drawback; it has an awful courier typeface, but heck, you aren't going to be reading this book in bed at night; it's a referrence book. I give it 5 star status.

Looks rubbish, but is dead handy!

I'll buy anything if it'll help me crack this language! When I first opened the book I thought it was rubbish - very cheap print etc. But, but, it is indispensible! It has most of the verbs a beginner could ever need and if you're trying to break from just a few clever phrases to actually being able to have a real conversation, you will find this book of immense value. A must have.

Good but not great

I should maybe say I bought this book cause it has 201 of the most frequently used verbs in English/Turkish. I am trying to commit to memory as many Turkish words as possible.Problems/quibbles with the book1. Doesn't have all the tenses! However, Turkish is very regular with it's grammatical rules so this isn't too bad.2. American bias with some of the translations. If you've been exposed to American media this wont be a problem.3. Could do with some more details in the translations, e.g. it has 'to weigh' for 'ölçek' and 'tartmak'. However, 'tartmak' is used for humans and animals and 'ölçek' is not. This would have been useful here.Other than that the book is just as the title says.