No. 1,257 in Turkish
almaktadır
"Almaktadır" means "is taking" or "is receiving" in English.
In a sentence
Ahmet her sabah gazete almaktadır.
Ahmet buys a newspaper every morning.
Indicates habitual action in present tense.
Bu bina büyük bir ilgi almaktadır.
This building receives great attention.
Denotes the action of receiving something, specifically attention here.
Bahçeden meyve almaktadır.
She/He is picking fruits from the garden.
Expresses an ongoing activity of picking fruits.
Hear it in real podcasts
The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “almaktadır” in actual Turkish podcasts.
Find “almaktadır” in podcastsLearn it from shows you like
LangTurbo plays Turkish podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Learning English?
LangTurbo plays real English podcasts with every line translated into Türkçe, and tells you what any word means in that sentence. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Turkish books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).