How are the different words for "trust" used?

Güvenmek & İnanmak

These are two strong special words that we do not tell just anybody.. and as there are some small exceptions for their uses, I wanted to make a small lesson about them. Let's jump to the words and learn!

Basicly güvenmek: to trust and inanmak: to believe and trust also means "güven" as noun.

Although one is to believe and the other is to trust, but we can use one over the other in two cases.

*to believe someone to do something - we use inanmak
Bunu yapacağına inanıyorum. I belive that you can/will do this.
We can not say Bunu yapacağına güveniyorum, this is wrong.

*to believe in / to have trust in someone
Sana güveniyorum. I trust you / I believe in you
We can say Sana inanıyorum / I believe you, to tell the same(to trust/to believe in) but Sana güveniyorum is more common when you build your sentence without telling anything else.

Sana inanıyorum sounds more like 'I believe what you say' rather than 'trust' when you do not tell why you believe in.

One last thing; if you ask someone to trust you you can say either
"Güven bana" or "İnan bana"

That's all!