Lesson 36: The Past Perfect Tense part 2 - Interrogative and interrogative- negative form

In the previous lesson we learnt how to conjugate the Turkish Past Perfect Tense in affirmative and negative form.
Let's see now how to obtain the interrogative form and the interrogative-negative form.
To do so I recommend to jump back to Lesson 23 for a moment and have a look at the suffixes used to form the past tense of the verb TO BE.
These suffixes will be used to build the interrogative form as well as the interrogative-negative form.


INTERROGATIVE FORM

Infinitive stem +
Reported Past suffixes ( -miş -müş -mış -muş )+
Interrogative particles ( -mi -mü -mı -mu ) +
Personal suffixes in past tense (see Lesson 23 for details) preceded by the buffer "y"
Let's better explain with a few examples:
Had you talked to him before? Onunla önceden konusmuş muydunuz?
Had she seen the doctor before? Doktoru önceden görmüş müydü?
Had they ever worked there? Orada çalışmış mıydılar hiç?

NEGATIVE-INTERROGATIVE FORM

Infinitive stem +
Negative particles -me -ma
Reported Past suffixes -miş -mış +
Interrogative particles -mi -mı +
Personal suffixes in past tense preceded by the buffer "y" as the following chart:
After the negative particle -me
ydim
ydin
ydi
ydik
ydiniz
ydiler
After the negative particle -ma
ydım
ydın
ydı
ydık
ydınız
ydılar

A few examples:

Hadn't you talked to him before? : Onunla önceden konuşmamış mıyıdın?
Hadn't he already seen the director ? Müdürünü henuz görmemiş miydi?
Different colors have been used to highlight the different suffixes used in this tense.
You can try to conjugate other verbs in Past Perfect Tense.You will realize that despite the number of suffixes used it is not that difficult.