ON THE IRREGULARITY OF THE PRESENT TENSE SUFFIXES IN TURKISH

Present tense suffixes are one of the suffixes that have not changed much in Turkish. It has survived from the historical periods of Turkish to the present day by preserving both function and form. However, it is seen that some of the present tense suffixes have some changes and inconsistencies from the past to the present. Although these inconsistencies are not very deep, they cause some uncertainties. In this respect, in order to avoid confusion, it is necessary to produce a linguistic solution about which verbs and which suffixes come. This solution may be possible by trying to determine the reasons for the attachments to the actions. The purpose of this study is to determine what this solution is. In the study, all the verbs in the Turkish Dictionary were listed by scanning method and the present tense suffixes of the verbs were determined. It has been determined that there is an inconsistency in verbs ending in '-l, -n, -r' fluent consonants in monosyllabic verbs. Morphological change was found to be related to phonetics. With these determined actions, the ambiguity regarding the use of aorist suffix in Turkish language teaching together with the native speaker will be eliminated.