Crimean Tatar

A beginner course in vocabulary and grammar.

Start with the basics. Each lesson begins with a choice of Latin or Perso-Arabic script.

Lesson 1 · Beginner

First words & word building

Learn a few everyday words, then see how a single ending changes their meaning.

10–15 minutes · 8 exercises
Lesson 2 · Beginner

Meet the distinctive sounds

Learn how six distinctive sounds are formed, compare their features, and recall words from memory.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 3 · Beginner

Word stress & greetings

Find the strong syllable, notice endings that do not take stress, and learn a short greeting exchange.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 4 · Beginner

Build a sentence

Arrange subjects, objects, and verbs; ask about people and things; and learn short farewells.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 5 · Beginner

Consonants & syllable patterns

Compare consonant groups and distinguish the sound of a consonant from the syllable pattern used in grammar.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 6 · Beginner

Plurals & counted things

Choose a plural ending, build noun phrases, and decide when a quantity already makes the meaning plural.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 7 · Beginner

Vowel harmony

Follow the last vowel when choosing endings, and notice how lip rounding affects word building.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 8 · Beginner

Infinitives & useful verb phrases

Build dictionary forms of verbs and use short phrases for necessity, possibility, and refusal.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 9 · Beginner

Choose the suffix consonant

Combine vowel harmony with the stem's final consonant to choose location and direction endings.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 10 · Beginner

Six noun cases

Use noun endings to express possession, direction, an object, a location, and a starting point.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 11 · Beginner

When stem consonants change

Recognize consonant changes before vowel endings and learn the source's exceptions as complete forms.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 12 · Beginner

Present-tense actions

Describe who writes, asks, and wants something using the source's affirmative present-tense forms.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 13 · Beginner

Talk about the past

Describe past actions you know about and choose endings for who took, gave, held, or did something.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 14 · Beginner

My, your & our

Add possessive endings to family words and familiar nouns, with or without an owner pronoun.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 15 · Beginner

When a stem loses a vowel

Learn four source word families in which a short stem vowel disappears before a vowel-starting ending.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 16 · Beginner

Link nouns into phrases

Use possessive noun forms in phrases for city centers, holiday days, and named places.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 17 · Beginner

Cases after possessive endings

Say to, in, and from with possessed nouns such as our city, your street, and his or her hand.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises
Lesson 18 · Beginner

Say what does not happen

Make present and past verbs negative, and use a separate negative word with nouns and short expressions.

15–20 minutes · 12 exercises