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•Vowel Harmony Part 2

You should have already looked at the Vowel Harmony 1 section and you will have seen how the vowels are split into 2 groups, each of which takes different suffixes.

However, there are other suffixes that instead of taking either 'e' or 'a', take either 'i, , ü, u', such as ...'-(i)yorum' (i am ....ing), '..dim' (i did...), and '-siz' (without). Therefore we need to split the suffixes into more groups in order to add the suffixes with the correct vowels.

For example

If the suffix is '-siz' (without) then the 'i' will change into If the last vowel •Vowel Harmony Part 2

You should have already looked at the Vowel Harmony 1 section and you will have seen how the vowels are split into 2 groups, each of which takes different suffixes.

However, there are other suffixes that instead of taking either 'e' or 'a', take either 'i, , ü, u', such as ...'-(i)yorum' (i am ....ing), '..dim' (i did...), and '-siz' (without). Therefore we need to split the suffixes into more groups in order to add the suffixes with the correct vowels.

For example

If the suffix is '-siz' (without) then the 'i' will change into If the last vowel

This applies to a number of suffixes, such as the past suffix ('...dim'), the possessive suffix (-im, -sin etc) and the 'without' suffix (-siz), as well as many more.

Examples

the '-siz' suffix, meaning 'without....'.

li', meaning 'with...'.