Turkish basic course

Sample Sentences:

Plain statement of fact:	Correcting a mistake; this never took place:
Ben böyle bir şey söylemedim. I didn’t say something like that.	Ben böyle bir şey söylemiş değilim. I never said anything like that!
Bize haber vermediler. They didn’t let us know.	Bize haber vermiş değiller. They never even let us know!
Ben onu tanımıyorum. I don’t know him.	Ben onu tanımış değilim. I have never even met him before!

LESSON 112 – YÜZ ON İKİNCİ DERS

Section 4 – Dördüncü Kısım
Gramer Analizi: Grammar Analysis:
V. -mez değil

By simply adding -mez to a verb root we represent an action or state as:

Something that occurs, but seldom if at all.

Information, knowledge or skill ones does not possess.

Something which isn’t characteristic.
By also adding değil after it, we make it positive. We represent the action or state as something that occurs quite frequently, or as information, knowledge or a skill one surely possesses, or as something characteristic (whatever people make think to the contrary).
Böyle şeyleri anlamaz değilim.

It’s not like I don’t understand such things. You can be quite sure that I do.
Since there is an element of correcting a misconception, we find that very often the speaker feels the need of an interjection at the end of the phrase. We frequently meet with ki and ya.
Yeniden okula gidecek değil ya! You don’t expect him to start going to school again, do you?!
Onları eğlendirecek değiliz ya! Well, we aren’t expected to amuse them, are we?!
Bununla birşey kaybedecek değilsin ki! But you aren’t losing anything by this!
Aklı ermiyor değil ki! It’s not like he doesn’t comprehend, he does!
Ben böyle birşey söylemiş değilim ki! It’s not like I wouldn’t say something like that!
This would correspond to the use of but and well, etc.