Now we're going to talk about one way to form verbal nouns in Turkish. To form a verbal noun you
just take a verb stem and add a
verbal noun ending to it to create a noun that's the equivalent of the English
Gerund, so for example in the sentence "his dancing is terrible"
"Dancing" is that the equivalent of a Turkish verbal noun. Now
we're going to look at how to make them and how to add possessive suffixes to them
Alright. To make, one way to make a verbal noun in Turkish is to take the verb stem and add either -me or -ma
According to the rules of two-way vowel harmony now -me and -ma may look familiar
because this is a form that Turkish negative suffixes can also take this is not the negative suffix
This is a verbal noun ending in this case
Let's look at how we can form verbal nouns with the verb "beklemek": to wait, in Turkish
We'll start with the verb stem "bekle-"
And simply add the appropriate form of -me or -ma according to vowel to two-way vowel harmony
so, "-me"
"bekleme"
means
"waiting" or "though waiting," as a noun a verbal now
now
verbal nouns ending in -me or -ma we can add all kinds of case ending, dative
ablative, and so on but we can also as I mention add
possessive suffixes to create phrases like "my waiting"
"his singing" and so on this is going to be important because these
verbal nouns
combined with the possessive suffixes will be a really important component of some very useful Turkish grammatical structures
For now let's learn how to make them, "bekleme": waiting
We want to say "my waiting," we have the option of using the
personal pronoun in the genitive so "benim": my
But we don't have to
But we do have to do, if we want it to be possessive is add the appropriate possessive suffix
because "bekleme" ends in a vowel will simply add "-m" so
"Beklemem"
"My waiting" or "benim beklemem": my waiting
"Senin" optional
"bekleme"
"beklemen"
Your waiting
"Onun beklemesi"
"Bizim bek..."
So, "beklemesi" will be his or her or it's waiting
"Bizim beklememiz"
Notice we're following the rules of four-way vowel harmony with our possessive suffix is as usual
"Sizin beklemeniz"
Your plural or your formal waiting and all Margin
and "Onların beklemesi"
or alternatively, "beklemleri"
Their waiting
Their possessive waiting not they are waiting
Let's look at how we can do this with another verb just for an example to see how it looks with the -ma
version of this particular verbal noun
ending
So let's do "yapmak": to make or to do
Start with our verb stem "yap-"
"Benim yapma"
Ok, "yapma" in this case be meaning "the making or the doing"
"Yapmam"
My doing or my making
"Benim yapmam," "senin yapman"
"Onun yapması"
"Bizim yapamız"
"Sizin yapmanız"
"Onların yapması" or "yapmaları"
And that's one way to form verbal nouns in Turkish
One additional note about forming verbal nouns in Turkish. It's worth remembering that although these are nouns
because they are derived in this way from verbs, they are verbal nouns. They'll still require the same
cases as the verbs from which they are derived in other words
For example if you're waiting for someone in Turkish you're waiting for them in the, they are going to be in the accusative
If I'm waiting for "sen" for you, singular "Seni bekliyorum"
I'm waiting for you. If I want to refer to my waiting for you as a noun
"Seni beklemem" would be my waiting for you "seni" is still needing to be in the accusative
Just as it would have to be the full verbal form of "beklemek"