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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قونشمق (konışmak). By surface analysis, kon- + -uş + -mak, literally “to settle mutually”.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ko‧nuş‧mak
Verb
konuşmak (third-person singular simple present konuşur)
- to speak
Toplantıda Türkçe mi konuşmalıyım (yoksa) İngilizce mi?- Should I speak Turkish or English in the meeting?
- to talk
Konuş benimle!- Talk to me!
- (literally, “Talk with me!”)
Şey, konuşmamız gerek.- Well, we need to talk.
- (literally, “Thing, our talking is necessary.”)
- to converse; to chat
Conjugation
1 The suffixes -ken and -cesine may be suffixed to the base form of any of the following tenses: aorist, continuous, inferential (even when it follows another suffix), and future.
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