Now we're going to talk about how to form negative questions in the present progressive tense and Turkish so questions like
"Aren't I coming or aren't you going?" Let's take a look at how we're going to form them again
we're going to use "gelmek": to come as our example verb. First, let's remember
how we form negative statements in the present progressive tense so statements like "I am not coming"
We'll start with the verb stem "-gel"
Then we'll add a
version of the negative suffix
We are going to choose which of our four versions, "-mi, -mı, -mu or -mü"
we're going to use according to the rules of four-way vowel harmony so for "gelmek" we're going to choose "gelmi-"
"-yor"
present progressive tense suffix "gelmiyor"
we want to say "I am not coming" so we'll choose the appropriate personal suffix "gelmiyorum"
"I am not coming": gelmiyorum.
But what if we want to ask aren't I coming or am I not coming?
We'll begin again
with the verb stem "gel-"
and we have the option of
including the personal pronoun "ben": I but we don't have to so "gel-"
and then we'll include the negative suffix "gelmi-" and then we'll include the present progressive tense subjects so "gelmiyor..."
Then just like with affirmative questions and the present progressive, we'll start a new word with our question particle
Using vowel harmony to determine which version we're going to use
"gelmiyor mu...?
Okay question particle and finally, we'll add the appropriate personal suffix, so
"gelmiyor muyum?"
Using that "y" as a buffer, remember between these two rules these two "u's so "gelmiyor muyum?": Aren't I coming
Now we'll move on to the second person singular so you, informal or you, singular, so
"gelmiyor..."
New word, question particle
"...musun?"
"Gelmiyor musun?": Aren't you coming?
We'll move on to the third person singular, so "o": he she or it or alternatively we could use a noun or a proper noun
"Gelmiyor..."
Notive these are all the same, "gelmiyor, gelmiyor, gelmiyor"
"mu?" question particle
And we'll stop there for the third person singular. "Isn't he or she coming?": gelmiyor mu?
Because we don't have a personal suffix that we need to add
Now on to the plural is
"Biz": we
"gelmiyor..."
"mu..." our question particle "...yuz?"
And notice we're inserting that "y" as our buffer between these two vowels so "Biz gelmiyor muyuz?": Aren't we coming?
For the second person plural, very similar
Siz gelmiyor mu..." question participle "...sunuz?"
"Siz gelmiyor musunuz?": Aren't you coming?
Finally in the third person plural
"Onlar": they. Or of course you could use a noun or a proper noun
"gelmiyor mu?"
Aren't they coming": "Onlar gelmiyor mu?"
Or alternatively we could
insert a
plural suffix, so we could say "onlar gelmiyorlar..."
and then choose the appropriate version of the question particle, "mı"
"Onlar gelmiyorlar mı?"
And that's how you form negative questions in the present progressive tense