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Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

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…önce/ evvel ‘(amount of time) ago’<br />

demin ‘a few moments ago’, ‘just now’<br />

son zamanlarda ‘recently’<br />

eskiden ‘in the past’, ‘formerly’<br />

bir zaman(lar)/ bir vakitler ‘in the past’, ‘formerly’<br />

zamanında/ vaktiyle ‘in the past’, ‘formerly’<br />

(c) Future:<br />

akşama ‘this evening’, ‘in the evening’<br />

yarın ‘tomorrow’<br />

yarın sabah ‘tomorrow morning’<br />

yarın akşam ‘tomorrow evening’<br />

öbürsü gün ‘the day after tomorrow’<br />

haftaya ‘next week’<br />

gelecek/önümüzdeki (hafta/ay/yıl) ‘next (week/month/year)’<br />

seneye ‘next year’<br />

…sonra ‘in (amount of time from now)’<br />

yakında/biraz sonra ‘soon’<br />

(ii) The following adverbials express time locations without reference to how they relate<br />

to the moment of speech:<br />

(a) Parts of the day:<br />

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sabah/↓sabahleyin ‘in the morning’, ‘this morning’<br />

öğleyin/öğle zamanı ‘at midday’<br />

öğleden sonra ‘in the afternoon’ ‘this afternoon’<br />

akşam üstü/üzeri ‘in the early evening’<br />

akşam/↓akşamleyin ‘in the evening’<br />

gece/↓geceleyin ‘at night’, ‘in/during the night’<br />

(b) More general expressions:<br />

önce/ evvela ‘first’, ‘at first’<br />

ilkönce ‘first of all’<br />

…önce/ evvel ‘(amount of time) before/ago’<br />

(bir) önceki(gün/hafta/ay/yıl) ‘the previous

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