Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Semra [ki partileri sevmez], o bile eğlendi.
‘Even Semra, [who doesn’t like parties,] had fun.’
(c) In restrictive relative clauses (25.6.2):
Bir şöför [ki park etmeyi bilmesin], ona güvenip arabasına binilmez.
‘A driver [who doesn’t know how to park a car] isn’t to be trusted to drive one
around.’
(d) ki can also be used following the demonstrative pronoun şu (18.2) to present
the content of a fact, belief, desire, etc., referred to by a headless relative clause
(25.3):
[Bildiğim] şu [ki, herkesin tatile ihtiyacı var].
‘All [I know] is [that everyone needs a holiday].’
11.1.1.5 mI
The clitic mI has the following functions:
(i) Question particle in yes/no questions (19.1.1), and alternative questions (both direct
(19.1.2) and indirect (24.4.3.2)).
When mI is added to a main clause predicate, its position depends on what kind of
suffixes or clitics (if any) appear at the end of the predicate. mI immediately precedes any
of the items listed below:
(a) the copular markers -(y)DI and -(y)mIş (8.3.2):
Gitse miydik? ‘Should we have gone?’
Başlamış mıydınız? ‘Had you started?’
Burada mıymış? ‘Was it here?’
(b) the person markers in group 2, except for the 3rd person plural marker (8.4)
and the colloquial combinations with -(y)AcAK mentioned in (e) below):
Gidiyor musun? ‘Are you going?’
İster miyiz? ‘Would we want [to]?’
Hazır mısınız? ‘A re you ready?’
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(c) the generalizing modality marker -DIr (8.3.3) in 3rd person forms:
Unutmuş mudurlar? ‘[Do you think] they have forgotten?’
Evde midir? ‘[Do you think] s/he/it’s at home?’/‘Is s/he at home?’
Otherwise, i.e. in forms with -DIr containing markers of the other persons, it immediately
precedes the person marker: