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Could someone give me a basic explanation of the structure of the Turkish language? Structure of the Turkish language.

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Most important thing is, Turkish is a suffix-based language. The root takes suffixes, and those suffixes indicate things like tense, personal pronoun, plurals, negatives and questions etc. For example; Koşmak is running Koş is the root Koşamamıştım, means ''I couldn't able to run that time'' as you can see with just adding suffixes you can tell lots of things with one word. Second most imprortant feature is Vowel harmony. Unlike anything in English and other languages. It is the character of the eight Turkish vowels which establishes the rules, these eight vowels being divided into two basic groups. a, i, o, u e, ı, ö, ü = Turkish Vowels a, ı, o, u=first group e, i,ö, ü=second group When adding suffixes you should pay attention to make the suffixes with the vowels from same group. for example root:koş koşacağım=I am going to run. root:git gideceğim=I am going to go.
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Information... marker. Information...marker. Verbs at the end.
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I can't help giving this classic example: Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız? This is a whole sentence consisting of more than 10 suffixes.

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