Turkish puts endings on a word one after another. Gel means come, geliyorum means I'm coming, and gelemiyorum means I can't come.
Ask for the long words in a list, with a hyphen between the root and each ending.
I'm learning Turkish. I can understand short sentences about my family and my day. Write 6 to 8 sentences in Turkish about a Sunday breakfast with friends, and use these words: kahvaltı, peynir, çay. Under the text, list every word that has two or more endings. Split each one with hyphens, like ev-ler-imiz-den, and say in English what each piece adds.
Some endings have two forms, like -ler in günler (days) and -lar in kitaplar (books). Others have four, like -im, -ım, -um, and -üm. The last vowel of the word picks the form.
Here's a Turkish word or sentence: "Arkadaşlarımla sinemaya gittim." Split each word into its root and endings. For each ending, tell me which vowel it uses and which vowel in the word made it choose that one. Then give me one new word for each form of that ending.
Pazar is the Turkish word for a market. Buying fruit and vegetables at a market stall is a good way to practice asking for amounts and prices.
Let's role-play in Turkish. You sell tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers at a pazar in İzmir, and I'm a customer. Greet me and tell me what looks good today. Keep each line short and wait for my answer. Call me siz. When I say teşekkürler, tell me which of my sentences had an ending in the wrong form, and show me the fixed one.
Paste a few sentences you wrote, and have ChatGPT check the letters and the endings together.
Check this Turkish I wrote: "Paste what you wrote here" Fix any wrong letter, including ı and i, ş, ç, ğ, ö, and ü. Then check every ending, including whether it matches the word's vowels. Give my text back with each fix in bold, and explain each fix in one short English sentence.
To have ChatGPT quiz you on a Turkish text you found, try the quiz prompt.
OpenAI says ChatGPT can get a definition wrong and still sound sure, so check new words in the TDK dictionary before you save them.
- Search the TDK DictionaryThe Güncel Türkçe Sözlük costs nothing to search. It explains words in Turkish, so use it to check that a word exists and how it's spelled.
- Ask What to Look UpAsk ChatGPT which word to search for. Okullarımızda is under okul, and gidiyorum is under gitmek.
- Look at Every DotTurkish writes ı without a dot and i with one, and the capitals are I and İ. Check the dots in each new word against the dictionary.
Bubblegum is a language app. Poppy, your AI tutor, writes each Turkish lesson for your level, so you never write a prompt yourself. Each lesson comes with audio, and a tap on any word shows its meaning.
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For serious learners, Bubblegum is the best app to learn Turkish. You learn from Turkish you can mostly understand, which is called comprehensible input.
Poppy can write a Turkish lesson about your favorite show or a trip to Antalya.
- Ask Poppy what each ending on a long word does while you read.
- Practice introducing yourself to a new coworker out loud with Poppy in live voice chat.
- Kahvaltı and every other word you save turn up in new lessons with Regenerative Review™.
- Clear, expressive AI voices read every lesson aloud, with a different voice for each speaker.
- The Turkish Alphabet course teaches only the 15 letters an English reader gets wrong, like ğ and ı. It leaves out the other 14, which read the way they look.
- A new custom lesson costs us real money to make, so your first one is free, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons. The lesson library is free for everyone, because we believe everyone should be able to learn.
- Regenerative Review™
- Teaches the Turkish Alphabet
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Do I Need to Learn a New Alphabet for Turkish?
Turkish uses Latin letters, so most of them look familiar. It has 29 letters, and seven of them, like ğ and ş, are Latin letters changed to fit Turkish sounds. The Turkish alphabet course teaches each of those with its sound, and our guide to Turkish letters explains each special one.
Should ChatGPT Call Me Sen or Siz?
Sen is the "you" for a friend or a child, and siz is the polite "you" for a stranger or an older person. Siz is also the "you" for more than one person. Tell ChatGPT which one to use at the start of a role-play, because the verb endings change with it: sen gidiyorsun, siz gidiyorsunuz.
Which App Should a Turkish Beginner Choose?
Is Bubblegum Free?
Yes. The lesson library is free for everyone, because we believe everyone should be able to learn. It holds lessons that other learners asked Poppy for. A new custom lesson costs us real money to make, so your first one is free, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons.
Sources
- OpenAI Help Center, Does ChatGPT tell the truth? (checked 2026-10-24)
- Türk Dil Kurumu, Güncel Türkçe Sözlük: entries for ev and gitmek (checked 2026-10-24)
- Wikipedia, Turkish grammar: suffixes and vowel harmony, günler and kitaplar, sen and siz (checked 2026-10-24)
- Wikipedia, Turkish alphabet: 29 letters, seven of them changed from Latin letters (checked 2026-10-24)
- Wiktionary, pazar: Turkish for market (checked 2026-10-24)
- Bubblegum
Checked on October 5, 2026 against each app's own pages.
