[Originally posted on 03/25/15 on the Duolingo Turkish for English speakers forum by AlexinNotTurkey]
Turkish is a Subject-Object-Verb language, meaning that sentences take on a different word order than that of English, French, German, or most other languages that English speakers most commonly study. That being said, a background in Japanese, Korean, or Hungarian will prove very useful. The verb always comes at the end of the sentence in written Turkish (spoken Turkish allows for some flexibility).
For example: Ben gazete okurum. Literally “I newspaper read.”, meaning, “I read newspapers.”
[Updated by Danika_Dakika starting 03/01/22]
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