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LPT Symbol Turkish Verb Tenses

Gelmek -- Past Dubitative, Compound
(a tense for sarcasm)

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The Indicative Mood Tenses

Indicative Mood

Past, Dubitative Compound Tense

(Note: This verb construction is hardly ever used -- except for sarcasm)

Türkce -- Bilesik Eylem ZamanlarI, Belirsiz geçmis zamanIn rivayeti

Past, Dubitative Compound -- Negative

(Note: This verb construction is hardly ever used -- except for sarcasm)

Past, Dubitative Compound -- Interrogative

(Note: This verb construction is hardly ever used -- except for sarcasm)

Past, Dubitative Compound -- Negative Interrogative

(Note: This verb construction is hardly ever used -- except for sarcasm)

gelmismisim --
it is said that* I had come
gelmemismisim --
it is said that I hadn't come
gelmismis miyim? --
had I supposedly come?
gelmemismis miyim? --
hadn't I supposedly come?
gelmismissin --
it is said that you had come
gelmemismissin --
it is said that you hadn't come
gelmismis misin? --
had you supposedly come?
gelmemismis misin? --
hadn't you supposedly come?
gelmismis --
it is said that he had come
gelmemismis --
it is said that he hadn't come
gelmismis mi?--
had he supposedly come?
gelmemismis mi?--
hadn't he supposedly come?
gelmismisiz --
it is said that we had come
gelmemismisiz --
it is said that we hadn't come
gelmismis miyiz? --
had we supposedly come?
gelmemismis miyiz? --
hadn't we supposedly come?
gelmismissiniz --
it is said that you had come
gelmemismissiniz --
it is said that you hadn't come
gelmismis misiniz? --
had you supposedly come?
gelmemismis misiniz? --
hadn't you supposedly come?
gelmislermis (gelmismisler) --
it is said that they had come
gelmemislermis (gelmemismisler) --
it is said that they hadn't come
gelmislermis mi? (gelmismisler mi?) --
had they supposedly come?
gelmemislermis mi? (gelmemismisler mi?) --
hadn't they supposedly come?
Related Example:

Q. Paul Revere dün aksam size geldi mi?
A. Bilmem, gûya gelmismis, biz evde yokmusuz. Oysaki biz bütün gece evdeydik.
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Q. Did Paul Revere come to visit you last night?
A. (spoken sarcastically) I don't know, but I hear that he had supposedly come and that we reportedly weren't at home. Yet, we were at home all night.

* the phrase It is said that... may also be treated as I hear that..., I understand that..., I'm told that..., They say that..., I gather that..., It seems that..., It looks like..., Reportedly..., Apparently..., Supposedly..., Allegedly at different places in translated sentences to make the translations smoother.


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