imiş

== 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 Ottoman Turkish ایمش (imiş). Equivalent to *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”).