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Write or paste a Turkish text. This page holds it up against exactly the rules the site itself teaches: 54 forms and constructions Turkish does not have, 58 spellings the dictionary writes differently, 0 verb forms and 23 false friends. Each finding comes with the page on which the rule is explained. Everything runs in your browser; the text never leaves your device.

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What it is measured against

Every rule in this checker is on one of these pages — and the same table checks this site’s own Turkish when it is built. A finding without a source would be an assertion; here are the sources, even without you checking anything.

The Turkish alphabet The aorist: negatives, questions, polite requests False friends The question particle “mi” The future in “-ecek” Two-way vowel harmony: e or a The infinitive in “-mek” and its cases The accusative: the definite object The dative: where to and to whom The locative: where something is Which case after which verb Assimilation: -de or -te Dotted i and dotless ı The soft g Cannot with “-eme” The apostrophe with names The plural with -ler and -lar My, your, his as an ending For, like, until: “için”, “gibi”, “kadar” The present in “-iyor” Questions and negatives with “-iyor” benimki and evdeki: the ending -ki Verb forms There is and have: “var” and “yok” Too, also: “de” and “da” That and so that: “ki” The definite past in “-di” Dates, months and days of the week The cardinal numbers

What this checker can do — and what it cannot

It does not check your Turkish. It checks 135 particular things in it. A text with no findings is not a text without mistakes: tenses, word order, articles and everything there is no rule for here are invisible to this tool. The reverse holds, though: whatever it reports is explained on a page of this site.

Three levels of certainty, and the difference matters. A mistake is a construction this site explicitly rules out — there is nothing to weigh up. A spelling is not a mistake in the sentence but a word everybody understands and the dictionary writes differently: herkez for herkes, herşey for her şey, cok without its cedilla for çok. A note is a question rather than a verdict: roman is a perfectly good Turkish word — it simply means “novel” and not “Roman”, and whoever wrote it may have meant exactly the novel.

The accusative on a definite object, the choice between -di and -miş and the harmony of most words are left out on purpose. They are common mistakes, but none of them can be recognised from a pattern: kitap okudum and kitabı okudum are both right — “I read a book” and “I read the book” — and only the writer knows which was meant. Where a pattern settles it — evda, iki kitaplar, Istanbul — the checker speaks up; otherwise it says nothing.

The word list below is information, not a mark. It shows which levels the words of your text sit at in this vocabulary. A text made entirely of words from the first level can be very good, and one full of words from the top levels very bad.