You’ve started learning Turkish ? Süper! So you’ve probably already learned a few phrases for “hello” and “goodbye,” as well as the most important words like “thank you” and “please.” But what about verbs? Well, you might be wondering which ones to begin with.

We’ve put together a guide to the 20 most common verbs in Turkish, along with their present-tense conjugations and useful sentences that contain them. But first, we have a handy infographic for the first five most frequently used Turkish verbs.

The Top 20 Most Common Turkish Verbs

1. yapmak — to make, to do

ben yapıyorum (“I do”)

biz yapıyoruz (“we do”)

sen yapıyorsun (“you do”)

siz yapıyorsunuz (“you do”)

o yapıyor (“he/she/it does”)

onlar yapıyorlar (“they do”)

Ne yapıyorsun? (“What are you doing?”)

Heads up! There’s another verb that means “to make” or “to do”: etmek . It’s used, for example, in the expression, Teşekkür ederim (“Thank you,” lit. “I make thank”).

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