Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

(Acaba) geçmiş miyimdir? ‘I wonder if I have passed.’
On the other hand, mI immediately follows any of the items listed below:
(a) the person markers in group 1:
Gördün mü? ‘Did you see?’
Gitsek mi? ‘Should we go?’
Yürüdünüz mü? ‘Did you walk?’
(b) the person markers in group 3 (except for the 2nd person forms, which do not
combine with the question particle for semantic reasons):
Kalayım mı? ‘Shall/should I stay?’
Baslasın mı? ‘Should s/he start?’
(c) the 3rd person plural form -lAr:
Gittiler mı? ‘Have they left?’
Uyanırlar mı? ‘W ill they wake up?’
Okuldalar mı? ‘Are they at school?’
(d) a subject complement (12.1.1.2) that is not followed by any predicate
markers:
Akıllı mı? ‘Is s/he intelligent?’
Benimki mi? ‘Is it mine?
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(e) the colloquial forms of the combination of future marker with 1st or
2nd person markers (8.4):
[ ] ‘Are you going to look [at it]?’
[ ] ‘Are we going to walk?’
mI places stress on the stressable syllable in the preceding word (4.3.2.1; for an
exception, see 19.1.5).
(ii) Adverbial clause marker (26.1.6 and 27.6.2):
When mI functions as an adverbial clause marker it follows verb forms which have the
perfective suffix -DI:
gittin mi ‘as soon as you go’
evini sattın mı ‘once you’ve sold your house’
Clauses with mI functioning as an adverbial have a slight rise of intonation at the end,
unlike questions, where the intonation falls at the end (see 5.1).
(iii) Intensifier in doubled forms (9.3):