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There are only two kinds of verbs in Turkish -- one kind ends with "mek" and the other with "mak".
These two types are extremely regular. So if you learn the conjugation of one verb of each kind,
it will serve well as the example for all other verbs of that kind.

The complete! conjugation (...or will be, anyway )
of the verb
Gelmek -- to come...
[Ah'd rather to see conjugations of the Verb 'to be', mon]

The Indicative Mood Tenses
(including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)

Click on the verb tense name to see the conjugation...

Present Continuous Simple Tense -- geliyorum; I am coming...

Simple (Aorist) 'Wide' Tense -- gelirim; I come, I'll come -- a verbal 'factoid' about this tense...

Present Dubitative Continuous Compound Tense (used for hearsay) -- geliyormusum; It's said that I'm coming...

Present Continuous, Compound Conditional Tense -- geliyorsam ; If I'm coming...

Present Dubitative Simple Compound Tense (used for hearsay) -- gelirmisim; It's said that I would come (used to come)...

Present Simple Compound Conditional Tense -- gelirsem; If I come, if I should/would come...

Present Perfect Continuous Tense -- gelmekteyim; I have been coming...

Past Continuous Compound Narrative Tense -- geliyordum; I was coming...

Present Perfect Tense -- I have come...

Past, Definite Tense -- geldim; I came, I did come...

Past, Simple Compound Narrative Tense -- I would come, I used to come...

Colloquial Past, Compound Narrative -- I had come, I came, I have come...

Past Definite, Compound Conditional -- geldiysem; If I came, if I have come...

Past Dubitative, Simple -- It's said that I came (have come)...

Past Perfect, Compound Narrative -- gelmistim; I had come...

Past Perfect, Continuous -- gelmekteydim (gelmekte idim); I had been coming...

Past, Dubitative Compound (a tense for sarcasm) -- gelmismisim; It's said that I had come...

Past Dubitative, Compound Conditional ... -- gelmissem; If I have come...

Future, Simple -- gelecegim; I will come...

Future Continuous -- geliyor olacagIm; I shall be coming...

Future Perfect Continuous -- gelmekte olacagIm; I shall have been coming...

Future Perfect (Past in the Future) -- gelmis olacagIm; I shall/will have come...

Future in the past -- gelecektim; I was going to come (about to come...)

Future, Dubitative Compound -- gelecekmisim; It's said that I'm going to come...

Future, Compound Conditional -- geleceksem; If I'm going to come...

The Abilitative Mood Tenses
-- expressing potential actions...
(including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)

Simple Tense -- gelebilirim; I can come [at all times], I am able to come, I'm in a position to come...

Present Continuous Tense -- gelebiliyorum; I can/may come [right now], I may be able to come...

Dubitative Past Tense -- gelebilmisim; It is said that I was able to come...

Definite Past -- gelebildim; I was able (could) to come...

Past Continuous Tense -- gelebiliyordum; I was able (could) to come...

Definite Past Perfect, Simple Tense -- gelebilirdim; I could have come, I would have been able to come...

The Necessitative Mood Tenses
-- expressing a requirement or obligation...
(including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)

Simple Tense -- gelmeliyim; I must come, I have to come, I should come...

Past Narrative Compound -- gelmeliydim; I should have come, I ought to have come...

Past Compound, Dubitative -- It's said that I should have come...

Other Necessitative, with gerekmek -- gelmem gerekiyor; I'll have to come (my coming is necessary)

The Imperative Mood Tense
-- expressing a command or request...
(including positive, negative examples. Interrogative, and negative interrogative examples are not applicable.)

The Imperative -- gel, gelin, geliniz; [you] come...

The Optative Mood Tenses
-- expressing a desire, wish, or condition...
(including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)

Simple Tense -- gelsem; If I come, if I would come, if I came...

Past, Compound Narrative -- If I had come, If only I had come, If I came...

Past, Compound Dubitative (used for hearsay) -- It's said that if I have come...

The Subjunctive Mood Tenses
-- expressing a wish, doubt, or probability...
(including positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative examples)

Simple -- let me come, (so) that I may come...

Past, Conditional -- Keske ... gelseydim -- If only I had come...; I wish I had come...

Past, Compound Reportative (a tense for literature) -- geleymisim; I wished I had come...

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More than you probably ever need to know about them...

The complete! conjugation (...or will be, anyway )of the verb Gelmek -- to come...

The complete! conjugation (...or will be, anyway )
of the verb
Gelmek -- to come...