Turkish Grammar

Simplicity of Turkish grammar

Turkish language family

The Turkish language belongs to Ural-Altaic family. It has an agglutinative structure. That is, sentences and words are created by adding suffixes to modify the root. This makes the Turkish language more difficult and the words longer. It has more suffixes as compared to Indo-European languages.

The word count between English and Turkish sentences having the same meaning may differ significantly due to this fact. That's why some Turkish translators apply higher fees when word count is based on the number of Turkish words and lower fees when the number of word is based on translated English text.

Word order in Turkish grammar

Words in sentences follow subject, object, and verb (SOV) order. In most cases, the word right before is the most important word in reflecting the meaning. You do not need the subject word if you are talking about a known action happening or happened.

Simple and easy-to-learn Turkish grammar

The Turkish grammar is simple. You can easily spell the words phonetically;

• There are no irregular verbs;
• There are no irregular nouns;
• There is no gender: He, she, or it are represented by one single pronoun;
• There is no distinction between adjectives and adverbs;
• You can convey the meaning without using verbs when you are referring to existence of something; and
• There is no confusion in articles as there are no definite versus indefinite articles.