Now we're going to talk about one way to form statements of need in Turkish.
The Turkish word "lazım"
means needed or necessary
The Turkish word "gerek" also means something along the lines of needed or necessary
We can combine
lazım
or gerek
with an infinitive
Or with a verbal noun plus possessive suffix to create statements of need in Turkish
like "it is necessary" or "I have to" and so on first let's look at how to use
"lazım" or "gerek" to create a general statement of need or necessity so
For example the Turkish word for "to wait" is
"beklemek" in the infinitive, "beklemek": to wait
If you want to say, generally, "it is necessary to wait" you can say
Beklemek lazım
it is necessary to wait
or
with essentially the same meaning
"Beklemek gerek": it is necessary to wait
If you want to create a statement of personal need
so something like "I have to" or "you need to"
you can instead of putting an infinitive and then instead of "lazım" or "gerek" take a...
excuse me, put a verbal noun plus the appropriate personal...excuse me, the appropriate
possessive suffix so verbal noun plus possessive suffix and then "lazım" or "gerek" to create statements of
personal need. Let's look at how this works...
It actually is quite simple.
So let's say we want to say "I need to go." We'll do "lazım" first and then "gerek"
We have the option of using the genitive
personal pronoun, "benim": my
But we don't need to
Now we want to say "I need to go" or "I have to go"
So "gitmek" is the Turkish verb for "to go." We'll start with our verb stem "git"
make a verbal noun
-me
"Gitme"
"My going": Gitmem
"Bemim gitmem": my going
To say in Turkish "I have to go" or "I need to go"
What we'll literally say is "my going is necessary" or "my going is needed," so
Benim gitmem lazım.
"I need," literally, "my going is necessary," but we can translate it as "I need to go" or "I have to go"
Senin
gitmen
lazım.
"Your going is necessary." "You need to go" or "you have to go."
Onun
gitmesi
lazım.
"He or she or it has to go, needs to go"
Bizim
gimemiz
lazım.
"We need to go" or "we have to go"
Sizin
gitmeniz
lazım.
"you" plural or formal "need to go, you have to go" and
finally
Onların
gitmesi
or, alternatively
gitmeleri
lazım.
"They need to go" or" they have to go"
I've used "lazım" here, but we can do exactly the same thing with "gerek"
so
Just to see how it works, "Benim gitmem gerek"
I need to go. I have to go
Senin gitmen gerek.
Onun gitmesi gerek.
Bizim gitmemiz gerek.
Sizin giemeniz gerek.
Onların girmesi or Onların girmeleri gerek.
We also have the possibility of putting
gerek or lazım
attaching a
Definite past auxiliary suffix, so in other words creating the meaning
"I needed to go" or "I had to go" and so on
How will we do this?
for "gerek," we will simply change it to
Gitmem gerekti.
Just the usual form of our
definite past auxiliary suffix.
So "Gitmem gerekti": I had to go, I needed to go
Gitmen gerekti.
Girmesi gerekti and so on
for "lazım"
We will do just the same thing, but with the form of the definite past
suffix which is, excuse me, the definite past auxiliary suffix which is appropriate for "lazım" so
Lazımdı. Bizim getmemiz lazımdı.
Our going was necessary, we had to go
Gitmeniz lazımdı.
Gitmesi lazımdı.
And so on, and that's one way to express need in Turkish.