Turkish/Past Continuous Tense

Past Continuous Tense

verb stem + present tense suffix + past tense suffix + personal ending(in 3.plural person the personal ending comes before the past tense suffix.)

for example,"gelmek (to come)":
Gel + iyor + du + m -->Geliyordum. (I was coming.)
Geliyordun. (You were coming.)
Geliyordu. (He/She/It was coming.)
Geliyorduk. (We were coming.)
Geliyordunuz. (You were coming.)
Geliyorlardı. (They were coming.)

Another example,"gülümsemek (to smile)":
gülüms(e is fallen)+ üyor+ du +m --> Gülümsüyordum.(I was smiling.) Gülümsüyordun. (You were smiling.)
Gülümsüyordu. (He/She/It was smiling.)
Gülümsüyorduk. (We were smiling.)
Gülümsüyordunuz. (You were smiling.)
Gülümsüyorlardı. (They were smiling.)
Past Continuous Tense

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Basics	Introduction About this book Computing in Turkish Contributions to this Wikibook Geography of Turkey and the TRNC
Pronunciation and Alphabet	A-I İ-R S-Z Vowel Classifications and Harmony Consonant Classifications and Harmony
Ways of enhancing your Turkish	Turkish Satellite Television Turkish Music Turkish Movies Turkish on the internet Turkish newspapers & magazines
Lessons	Greetings I am... Asking Questions Are you busy today? Asking for directions Services
Vocabulary	List of Phrases List of Verbs List of Words Countries Numbers Animals Loanwords Compound Verbs
Grammar	Nouns	Nominal Sentences Plural Noun Constructions
		Pronouns	Personal Pronouns and Pronoun Dropping Demonstrative Pronouns Pronouns of Place and Manner Question Words kendi birbiri-
		Cases	Accusative Dative Locative Ablative
		Postpositions	To be filled
	Derivation	Deriving Verbs Deriving Nouns
	Verbs	Simple Tenses	Present Tense Seen Past Tense Reported Past Tense Future Tense Aorist
		Moods	Imperative and Optitative Necessative Conditional
		Vоices	Passive Voice Causative Voice Reciprocal and Reflexive Voices
		Auxiliary Verbs	imek Free Auxiliaries Bound Auxiliaries
		Compound Tenses	Imperfective Past Evidential Copula Conditional Copula
	Subordinate Clauses	Infinitive Converbs Relative Clauses Reported Speech
	Sentences	Word Order Conjunctions

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