Biweekly Post #4

[Azin Bahari]

The 7^th and 8^th weeks of my language learning consisted of learning basic verbs and how to conjugate these verbs into the present progressive/gerund form. There are differentiations in how to conjugate a word based on whether the verb root form ends with a vowel or consonant, and which consonant. A buffer vowel is used if the verb root form ends with a vowel rather than a consonant, and the buffer vowel must follow vowel harmony based on the last vowel in the root verb. As with adjectives, there were a lot of verbs! This, time I decided to repeatedly write out a list of verbs to memorize them. Our language partner also taught us how to express frequency, i.e. how frequently a verb was done. Some of these frequency-related phrases and expressions include her zaman (all the time), her gün (every morning), bazen (sometimes), asla (never), and much, much more.