bakmak
verb A1- to look (at), gaze · Eve bakıyorum., I'm looking at the house.
- to look for · Ev bakıyorum., I'm looking for a house.
- to face, view, watch, have a sight of
- to examine, investigate, pay attention to, have a look
- to take care of, look after
- to maintain
- to attend to, tend to, see to, mind
- to look to, depend upon
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainThe stem, then -iyor, then a person ending. The first vowel of -iyor follows vowel harmony (geliyor, alıyor, okuyor, görüyor), but -yor never changes, so the person endings after it are always back: -um, -sun, -uz.
-di follows vowel harmony (geldi, aldı, okudu, gördü). The past uses short person endings: -m, -n, -k, -niz, -ler.
After a voiceless consonant (f, s, t, k, ç, ş, h, p) the d of -di becomes t: baktı.
-ecek after a front vowel, -acak after a back one. After a stem ending in a vowel, a buffer y joins them: başlayacak.
k becomes ğ before a vowel: bakacağım. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: bakar.
From the library
Bir de baktım bizim Ahmet.
Cevap vermedi, yere baktı.
Utandı, başını daha beter eğdi, önüne baktı.
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