The necessity of having to do something can be expressed by adding the suffix –meli or –malı to verbs.
Verb + (negative) + meli/ malı + person.
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Wishes - Dilek şart kipi
Volitional utterances are not statements, but expressions of the speaker's (or in interrogative forms the hearer's will or desire in relation to the situation expressed.
Imperatives - Emir kipi
Basic commands: no marker or (y)in(iz). The standard imperative forms express straightforward commands.
- Bu para-yı babanıza verin
- The longer 2nd person plural form ıs used mainly for formal public commands
Lütfen kemerlerinizi bağlayın
Please fasten your seatbelts - 3rd person ınstructıons:(-sınlar)
Çocuklar burada kalsınlar
Let the children stay here - İf the speaker is only interested in getting an action done(or preventing its being done) a passive form may be used
Artık buraya afış asılmasın
Let no notices be put here from now on - When a 3rd person imperative form is used in a question the speaker is consulting the hearer as to whether she or he wishes a certaın action to be performed or a situation to occur
Çocuklar burada mı kalsınlar?
Should the children stay here?
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