Turkmen grammar
Turkmen grammar () is the grammar of the Turkmen language, whose dialectal variants are spoken in Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Russia (in Stavropol krai), China (Salar Turkmens), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and others. Turkmen grammar, as described in this article, is the grammar of standard Turkmen as spoken and written by Turkmen people in Turkmenistan.

Turkmen is a highly agglutinative language; that is, much of the grammar is expressed by means of suffixes added to nouns and verbs. It is very regular compared with many other languages of non-Turkic group. For example, "obalardan" "from the villages" can be analysed as "oba" "village", "-lar" (plural suffix) and "-dan" (ablative case, meaning "from"); "alýaryn" "I take" as "al" "take", "-ýar" (present tense) and "-yn" (first person singular).

Another characteristic of Turkmen is vowel harmony. Most suffixes have two or four different forms, the choice between which depends on the vowel of the word's root or the preceding suffix. For example, the ablative case of "obalar" is "obalardan" "from the villages" but the ablative case of "itler" "dogs" is "itlerden" "from the dogs".

Verbs have six grammatical persons (three singular and three plural), various voices (active, passive, reflexive, reciprocal and causative), and a large number of grammatical tenses. Meanings such as "not", "be able", "must" and "if", which are expressed as separate words in most other languages, are usually expressed with verbal suffixes in Turkmen. A characteristic of Turkmen which is shared by neighbouring languages such as Persian is that the perfect tense suffix (in Turkmen "-miş", "-myş") often has an inferential meaning, e.g. "gelýärmiş" "it would seem (they say) that he/she is coming".

Verbs also have a number of participial forms, which Turkmen makes plentiful use of. Clauses which begin with "who" or "because" in English are generally expressed by means of participial phrases in Turkmen. Meanings such as "behind", "for", "like/similar to" etc. are expressed as postpositions following the noun rather than prepositions before it.
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