gitmek
verb A1- to go
- to lead · Bu cadde sahile gider., This street leads to the coast.
- to deteriorate; to grow worse · Kadının sağlığı kötüye gidiyor., The woman's health is deteriorating.
- to suit; to be suitable or apt for one's image · Mor bana gitmez., Purple doesn't suit me.
- to die, to pass away · Araba çarpan adamcağız oracıkta gitmiş., The poor man who was hit by the car passed away right there.
- to last · Bu telefon bana üç yıl gitti., This phone lasted me three years.
- to be traded at a certain rate · Dolar bugün kaçtan gidiyor?, At what rate is the dollar trading today?
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.
The t of git- becomes d before a vowel: gidiyor.
-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: gitti.
-ecek after a front vowel, -acak after a back one. After a stem ending in a vowel, a buffer y joins them: başlayacak.
The t of git- becomes d before a vowel: gidecek.
k becomes ğ before a vowel: gideceğim. Not before a consonant: geleceksin.
Other one-syllable verbs take -ar or -er: gider.
The t of git- becomes d before a vowel: gider.
Words from it
From the library
Ertesi sene annem, yazın gene İstanbul'a gitti.
— Ben Hasan'ın yanına gideceğim, dedim.
— Hayır, şimdi gideceğim.
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