Vowel Harmony
Posted: 2013-12-05, 19:48
Hello Turkish-forumites!
I have been looking at a few websites teaching Turkish, but I'm still a little confused on the details of vowel harmony in Turkish. Could some one explain it? In particular, I would like to know if there is a definite set of rules that apply to all suffixes (maybe with the expection of some I've attached to loan words from Arabic) or if different suffixes follow different rules? Is there a way to determine unequivocally what vowels should be in a suffix just by looking at the last vowel of the root?
I have been looking at a few websites teaching Turkish, but I'm still a little confused on the details of vowel harmony in Turkish. Could some one explain it? In particular, I would like to know if there is a definite set of rules that apply to all suffixes (maybe with the expection of some I've attached to loan words from Arabic) or if different suffixes follow different rules? Is there a way to determine unequivocally what vowels should be in a suffix just by looking at the last vowel of the root?