Now I'm going to talk about how to form yes/no questions in the aorist tense
We're going to start off exactly as if we were going to form an affirmative statement in the aorist
Let's see how this is going to work for our example verb let's use "okumak"
Meaning "to read," will start just as if we were forming an affirmative statement with our verb stem
"oku-" our verb stem optional pronoun, "ben": I
"Oku-" and to the verb stem we'll add the appropriate form of the aorist affirmative suffix
Now this is covered in more detail elsewhere
But remember when you're choosing which version of the aorist affirmative suffix to add to a verb
Almost all but 13 Turkish verbs will fall into one of three categories
There are verbs
With like "oku-" which end in a vowel. For verbs which end in a vowel
we're simply going to choose
the
Only aorist affirmative suffix that does not begin with a vowel a simple "-r" so "okur"
for other verbs verbs
whose stamps and in consonants we're going to
follow either the rules of two-way vowel harmony or four-way vowel harmony as we add our aorist suffix
so
generally with certain exceptions
verbs which have only one syllable and end in a consonant will
choose either -ar or -er as their aorist affirmative suffix
So in other words that follow the rules of two-way vowel harmony.
Verbs whose stems have more than one syllable which are
polysyllabic
but end in a consonant, we'll follow the rules of
four-Way vowel harmony so as they're aorist affirmative suffix they'll choose "-ir, -ır, -ur, or -ür"
For our example though we're looking at
"okumak" which ends in a vowel so simply or "okur"
Alright now
this first word of our yes/no question
does, excuse me, "do I read?"
ends here, "okur." Now we begin a new word with our question particle
"okur mu..." four-way vowel "okur mu..." and we'll simply add the appropriate
personal suffix directly to the question particle, so oh
"Okur muyum?": Do I read?
with the full range of meaning
implied by the aorist named the "geniş zaman," the broad tense and you can learn more about usage elsewhere
"Sen okur"
exactly the same, simply the stem of the verb, plus its aorist affirmative suffix "sen okur"
new word with a question particle "mu"
appropriate personal suffix according to the rules of four-way vowel harmony, "sen okur musun?"
"Sen okur musun?": do you read now?
I should note
one very common usage of these yes/no aorist
questions is as a polite request so "Okur musun?" can mean "Do you read?"
habitually, as one of its meanings
But another very possible meaning is "would you read, would you please read?"
"Okur musun?": Would you please read this?
Let's move on with the formation of our third person singular "o okur"
wuestion particle "mu," and we don't have a personal suffix we need to add here so "O okur mu?": Does he read?
"Biz okur muyuz?": Do we read?
"Siz okur musunuz?": Do you read or as a polite request would you read, would you please read?
They: "onlar okur"
or we have the option of adding our
plural suffix according to the rules of two-way harmony -ler or -lar, in this case "Okurlar mı?"
So "Onlar okular mı?" or "Onlar okur mu?"
As two separate words, both are correct