The Little Used Heavy Infinitive
This is formed by affixing -lık or -lik to the standard Infinitive for the positive verb. The final -k of -mek is often dropped when adding the -lik suffix.
The negative is slightly different in that the -mek or -mak changes to -mez or -maz.
gelmek becomes gelme(k)lik
bakmamak becomes bakmazlık
The meaning of the heavy infinitive is the same as the standard infinitive and is only used when there may be ambiguity in the context. The heavy infinitive is little used. The heavy infinitive can also have personal pronouns and or case endings added to it.
It does not however drop its final -k of -lik as does the common infinitive when suffixes are added although this final -k will mutate to a final -ğ when necessary before an added vowel.
Positive
gelme(k)lik - to come
gelme(k)liğim - my coming
gelme(k)likleri - their coming
Negative
gelmezlik - not to come
gelmezliğimiz - our not coming
gelmezliği - his not coming |