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gerekmek

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Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كركمك (gerekmek, to be needful, be necessary, be fitting, be suitable, be lacking), reflexive of Proto-Turkic *kẹrge- (to need).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kerge-, to lack, require, need), Azerbaijani gərəkmək and gərək, see the last for more cognates.

Verb

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gerekmek (third-person singular simple present gerekir)

  1. (intransitive) to be necessary, be needed, be required
  2. (auxiliary, impersonal with genitive + third-person singular + verbal noun) to have (to do)
    Senin işe gitmen gerekiyor.You have to go to work.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹrge-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill