gülmek means to laugh..
and
güldürmek means to cause to laugh..to amuse..its the causative form of
gülmek..signified by the addition of
DÜR..you will remember we have done a few verbs like this before.
apart from a good conversation starters these are great words for seeing and learning dotted vowel harmony.
gül..say it like the english ghoul.
gül+DÜ+m..i laughed..
güldük we laughed.
güldün/güldünüz.you laughed.
güldü he/she/it laughed..
güldüler they laughed
negative..add
ME after
gül
gül-ME dim..and the harmony has changed..because the last vowel before adding a suffix is E..hence ..
gül-me-di-m..i didn't laugh.
gülmedik we didn't laugh
gülmedin you didn't laugh ..
gülmediniz you plural/formal didn't laugh.
gülmedi he/she/it didn't laugh..
gülmediler they didn't laugh.
present tense uses
ÜYOR
gülüyor+pronouns..
um-sun-uz -sunuz- lar..i am laughing etc.
negative is.
M+üyor
gülmüyorum..gül üyorsun etc.
question form is
gülüyor muyum? am i laughing.
gülüyor musun..are you laughing.
the question marker is undotted
MU its harmonized with the last vowel
O in üyor.
'Neden gülüyorsun?
why are you laughing.?
'gülmekten bayıldım'
i laughed till i fainted.
gülmek+ten this is another form of a verbal noun...and here its taking a case suffix..
DEN/DAN which means from or through.
here
Den is mutated to
T as it follows
K...sorry!! but if you want to learn turkish you will need to know the mutations..not all at once though
gülmekten..through laughing....
bayıldım İ fainted
bayılmak..means to faint or pass out
you probably know this word from the famous turkish dish..
'imam bayıldı'
bayıldı..he fainted..(the priest ..as it was so tasty))
and don't say it
bayldee try ..
bay ul du..almost.
and here's another example of
bayılmak since we're looking at it
'bayılan- kadını- hastaneye- kaldırıyoruz'
fainting -woman- hospıtal to- we took'
the woman who fainted we took to the hospital.
gül-EN means the one who laughed..just as
bayıl-AN means the one who fainted..the meaning comes from the
EN/AN suffix.
gülDÜRmek means to cause to laugh or to amuse.
it takes the same endings as
gülmek
seni güldürüyor muyum?
am i making you laugh?
'insanları güldürEN adam ingiltereden geldi'
the man who is amusing the people is from england.
'O beni güldürmedi
he didn't make me laugh.
there's lots more to these words but its a short one as.i once again have a houseful who only want to play okey til the early hours
hope to have a night off on tuesday...at the damlataş..at 8pm if there's anybody here going there!!
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