imiş

See also: imis

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From i- +‎ -miş.

Participle

imiş

subject past participle of *imək (“to be”)

Verb

imiş

third-person singular present perfect of *imək (“to be”)

Turkish

Etymology

From Turkish *imek (“to be (auxiliary verb)”) +‎ -miş, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ermiĺ.

Verb

imiş

was, were (auxiliary verb of a type of past tense)

Usage notes

It is used only in nouns. Sometimes it can be combined with the word before it, and if combined, the letter i is dropped. If the word before it ends with a vowel sound, the i is replaced by a consonant y. For example:

öyle (“like that”) +‎ -imiş = öyleymiş (“(I guess) he/she/it was like that or (I heard that) he/she/it is/was like that”) or öyle (“like that”) +‎ -imiş = öyle imiş (“(I guess) he/she/it was like that or (I heard that) he/she/it is/was like that”).
çocuk (“child”) +‎ -imiş = çocukmuş (“(I guess) he/she/it was a child or (I heard that) he/she/it is/was a child”) or çocuk imiş (“(I guess) he/she/it was a child or (I heard that) he/she/it is/was a child”).