I've got a quick question about some Turkish tenses mek/mak or/and -meyi/-mayi
It seems you can use the mek/mak form of verbs when saying "-mek/-mak istiyorum" for example ''Türkçe öğrenmek istiyorum'' and stuff like that, but then in my Turkish phrase book , it uses "-meyi/-mayi seviyorum". Why does "istemek" use that one form, and "sevmek" the other? Or could you use both interchangebly? Those are both auxiliary verbs right, I'm a bit confused :S

Question

I've got a quick question about some Turkish tenses  mek/mak or/and -meyi/-mayi
It seems you can use the mek/mak form of verbs when saying "-mek/-mak istiyorum" for example ''Türkçe öğrenmek istiyorum''  and stuff like that, but then in my Turkish phrase book , it uses "-meyi/-mayi seviyorum". Why does "istemek" use that one form, and "sevmek" the other? Or could you use both interchangebly?  Those are both auxiliary verbs right, I'm a bit confused :S

Answer

I'm not a teacher but I'll try to explain it to you.

'istemek' means 'to want' and 'sevmek' means 'to love'.
Türkçe öğrenmek istiyorum = I want to learn Turkish language.

Türkçe öğrenmeyi seviyorum = I love studying Turkish language. ('Öğrenmek' can be used for both meaning 'to study' and also 'to learn'.)

hope this helps :)
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A tip for you, don't study from Phrasebooks. It probably will make you confused, try to find yourself a book with explanations in it. (it's my opinion so just a suggestion)

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