When a (completed) event or an action is repeated within a certain period of time, this may be expressed by an iterative marker. The meaning this marker contributes can be paraphrased as “again and again” or as “repeatedly”. Iterative differs from the habitual [Morphology – 3.3.1.1.] in that iterated events are perceived as countable and temporally bound.
Some verbs in TİD can be inflected manually to express the iterative aspect. The following examples illustrate the bare, citation form of the verb ınvıte, and its iterative inflected form. In the iterative form, the articulation of the verb involves a circular movement.
Citation form
ınvıte
Iterative form
1ınvıte3a 1ınvıte3b 1ınvıte3c
‘They are inviting me all the time.’