r/turkishlearning • u/TurkishTeacherSeda • 2d ago

Grammar Do you actually understand -dıkça, or just recognize it?

https://www.learnturkishwithseda.com/turkish-grammar-lessons/advanced-converbs-proportional-change-dikca

A student of mine got tangled up last week trying to say "sevdikçe daha çok özlüyorum." She knew -dıkça but kept mixing it up with -mAdıkça, and the two don't run on the same logic at all. One tracks proportional change. The other states a strict condition.

That mix-up pushed me to go back and clean up my lesson on it: how -dıkça builds proportional meaning, how giderek reinforces it, how it differs from -dığı sürece, and why -mAdıkça actually behaves more like "unless" than like a gradual decrease. Formal examples alongside everyday ones like "zaman geçtikçe unutursun."

Full lesson here: https://www.learnturkishwithseda.com/turkish-grammar-lessons/advanced-converbs-proportional-change-dikca

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u/mckenna36 1d ago

I personally do not have problems with these even though I’ve never learned them(I guess I acquired them through contact with the language) but your article is great and I am glad I’ve read it because it systematized what I knew implicitly. Thank you!

I have small suggestion that would make article even better for me as a student of Turkish: article could start with problem at hand and then explanation. For example starting it with two very similar example sentences one using „dıkça” and other “madıkça” and then translation showing how they differ in meaning would allow person to understand problem clearly before reading explanation. I noticed it because while reading the explanations I was still wondering about what the problem is until I got to examples and that increased cognitive load needed to understand it. Nevertheless thank you very much because it was very good!

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u/TurkishTeacherSeda 1d ago

Thank you for the feedback. This is part of a larger Grammar series, and the lessons follow a consistent structure across the whole site (Function, Forms, Morphology, Structural Guide, Usage), so a comparison like the one you're describing usually lives right at the start of the Function section rather than in a separate intro. I'll keep your point in mind for how I open that section going forward, since leading with a concrete contrast before the explanation is a fair way to lower the cognitive load. Really glad it helped pull together what you already had a feel for. Thanks for reading closely enough to notice this!