Language/Turkmen/Grammar/Question-words

Hello Turkmen learners! 😀

In today's lesson, you will learn how to use the question words in Turkmen.

Once you've mastered this lesson, take a look at these related pages: The Case system, Future Tense, Personal Pronouns & Plurals.

Question words Turkmen

	“who”	“what”	“how much”	“which”	“where”
Nominative	kim – who	name	näçe	haýsy	nire
Accusative	kimi – who	nämäni	näçeni	haýsyny	nireni
Genitive	kimiň – whose	nämeniň	näçeniň	haýsynyň	niräniň
Dative	kime – to whom	nämä	näçä	haýsyna	nirä
Locative/Time	kimde – who (has)	nämede	näçede	haýsynda	nirede
Ablative	kimden – from whom	nämeden	näçeden	haýsyndan	nireden

• Other question words: haçan (when).

Examples

NB none of these words can be used as complementizers, they are used only as question words.

• Kimiň telpegi geýýärsiň? – Whose hat are you wearing?

• Nirä barýarsyň? – Where are you heading?

• Sen nämeni aldyňmy?  - Did you buy that thing (what was it?).

• Sen nirede? – Where are you?

• Kimde çörek bar? – Who has some bread?

Sources

https://vdocuments.mx/embed/v1/turkmen-grammar.html

Other Lessons

• Ordinal Numbers
• The Subjunctive Mood
• Plurals
• Verbs
• Adjectives
• Question particle–my mi
• Gender
• Future Tense
• Personal Pronouns
• Past in the past (pluperfect)