gitmek

Gitmek is a Turkish verb meaning to go. It denotes moving from the speaker’s current location toward a destination and is used for both physical movement and more abstract senses such as going to an event or going somewhere regularly. In Turkish, gitmek appears in many constructions with various tenses and aspects, and it serves as a common verb in everyday speech.

Infinitive gitmek combines with a subject to form conjugated tenses. The verb stem changes across tenses due to Turkish vowel harmony. Present tense forms include giderim, gidersin, gider, gideriz, gidersiniz, giderler (I go, you go, he/she goes, we go, you go, they go). The present continuous uses gidiyorum, gidiyorsun, gidiyor, gidiyoruz, gidiyorsunuz, gidiyorlar (am/are going). The simple past is gittim, gittin, gitti, gittik, gittiniz, gittiler. The future forms are gideceğim, gideceksin, gidecek, gideceğiz, gideceksiniz, gidecekler.

Usage notes and related forms: gitmek yields related nouns such as gidiş (departure) and gidişat (course, trend). The verb participates in common compounds and idioms, for example gidip gelmek (to go and come back) and yola çıkmak (to set off or depart). In everyday Turkish, gitmek is among the core verbs learners study early because it combines with pronouns and time expressions to indicate movement and intention.