imiş
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See also: imis
Azerbaijani[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Participle[edit]
imiş
- subject past participle of *imək (“to be”)
Verb[edit]
imiş
- third-person singular present perfect of *imək (“to be”)
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Turkish *imek (“to be (auxiliary verb)”) + -miş, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ermiĺ.
Verb[edit]
imiş
- was, were (auxiliary verb of a type of past tense)
Usage notes[edit]
It is used only in nouns. Sometimes it can be combined with the word before it, and if combined, the letter i is dropped. If the word before it ends with a vowel sound, the i is replaced by a consonant y. For example:
- öyle (“like that”) + -imiş = öyleymiş (“(I guess) he/she/it was like that or (I heard that) he/she/it is/was like that”) or öyle (“like that”) + -imiş = öyle imiş (“(I guess) he/she/it was like that or (I heard that) he/she/it is/was like that”).
- çocuk (“child”) + -imiş = çocukmuş (“(I guess) he/she/it was a child or (I heard that) he/she/it is/was a child”) or çocuk imiş (“(I guess) he/she/it was a child or (I heard that) he/she/it is/was a child”).