Learning Turkish language

[aylin]

thanks Volcano sen de babybrian cok naziksiniz

[Volcano1985]

Where are you from aylin ?

[babybrian]

rica ederim, aylin, you're welcome

[akanatzar]

Can you translate "Dunyanim, hayatim" for me?

[Milena]

Originally Posted by akanatzar

Can you translate "Dunyanim, hayatim" for me?

Dünyanım = I am your world

Hayatım = My life

[aylin]

ben suriyelim biz komşuyuz

[aylin]

VERB TO BE (am, is, are)

-im (-ım,-um,-üm) = I'm
-sin (-sın,-sun,-sün) = you're
O --- = s/he 's - it's
-iz (-ız,-uz,-üz) = we're
-siniz (-sınız,-sunuz,-sünüz) = you're
-ler/-lar = they're

Meslekler = Occupations

balıkçı = fisherman
banka memuru = bank employee
çiçekçi = flower seller
diplomat = diplomat
doktor = doctor/ physician
fotoğrafçı = photographer
gazeteci = journalist
kuaför = hairdresser
manav = greengrocer
öğrenci = student
öğretmen = teacher
otobüs şöförü = bus driver
pilot = pilot
polis memuru = police officer
profösör = professor
ressam = painter
sekreter = secretary
sporcu = athlete
şarkıcı = singer
taksi şöförü = cab/taxi driver
terzi = tailor

now let's try to apply the verb to be with some words we've above:
let's take the word doctor as an example/örnek:

ben doktorum = I'm a doctor
sen doktorsun = you're a doctor
o doktor(dur) = s/ he is a doctor ( we can put dir,dır,dur,dür or put nothing)
biz doktoruz = we're doctors
siz doktorsunuz = you're doctors
onlar doktorlar = they're doctors

*usually we omit the pronoun since each pronoun has its own suffix which indicates to that pronoun ( except for the pronoun O)

örnek: güzelim I'm beautiful
doktorsun = u r a doctor
o doktor = he is a doctor

now try to write urselves, sizin mesleklerin ne? (what's ur jobs)
ben öğrenciyim
*note that we put y between the vowels and this is with ben and biz

[aylin]

THE VERB TO BE (Negative form)

değil = not
the personal pronouns suffixes are added to değil:

değilim= i’m not
değilsin= you’ re not
değil(dir)= he,she,it is not
değiliz= we’re not
değilsiniz= you’re not
değiller= they’re not

örenek:
(ben) öğretmen değilim= i’m not a teacher
(sen) öğretmen değilsin= u r not a teacher
o öğretmen değil= s/he is not a teacher
(biz) öğretmen değiliz= we are not teachers
(siz) öğretmen değilsiniz= you are not teachers
onlar öğretmen değiller= they aren’t teachers

[aylin]

THE VERB TO BE (Interrogative form)

the personal pronouns suffixes are added to the interrogative particle-mi: (except for Onlar)

miyim= am i >> mutlu muyum? am i happy?
misin= are you >> mutlu musun? are you happy?
mi= is s/he/it >> mutlu mu? is he/she/ it happy?
miyiz= are we >> mutlu muyuz? are we happy?
misiniz= are you >> mutlu musunuz? are you happy?
--lar/ler mi= are they >> mutlular mı? are they happy?

(Negative Interrogative):

değil miyim= am i not / aren’t i >> yorgun değil miyim? am i not tired?
değil misin= aren’t u >> yorgun değil misin? aren’t u tired?
değil mi= isn’t s/he, it >> yorgun değil mi? isn’t he/she tired
değil miyiz= aren’t we >> yorgun değil miyiz? aren’t we tired?
Değil misiniz= aren’t you >> yorgun değil misiniz? aren’t you tired?
değiller mi= aren’t they >> yorgun değiller mi? aren’t they tired?

[aylin]

Question Tags

Isn't it?, Aren't you? , Aren't they? etc - are all translated by the single tag değil mi?

meşgulum, değil mi? = i’m busy, aren’t i?
meşgulsun, değil mi? = u r busy, aren’t u?
Aylin meşgul, değil mi? = Aylin is busy, isn’t she?
meşguluz, değil mi? we are busy, aren’t we?
meşgulsunuz, değil mi? you are busy, aren’t you?
meşgullar, değil mi? they are busy? aren’t they?

[yesil]

selam bogazici nasilsin bana yardimci olablirmisin cumle kurmata yeni inglizce ogreniyorum

[Besiman Tov]

Oh it's wonderful what you are doing here... I began to learn turkish 2 years ago and I found it really interesting...

[Volcano1985]

Besiman Tov Welcome among us.Its nice to see you have been learning turkish.We can help you here as much as we can.

Where are you from ?

[Besiman Tov]

Thx... I come from Italy but I live in Switzerland...

[glazaridu]

hello guys,
i am new here and i am very happy that i found that forum. I am from greece but after my trip at turkey i adorded the country and the language.
You are doing very good job here.

keep going

[marmaris]

wellcome komsu =) we are ready for all help as you know =)

[Volcano1985]

Originally Posted by glazaridu

hello guys,
i am new here and i am very happy that i found that forum. I am from greece but after my trip at turkey i adorded the country and the language.
You are doing very good job here.

keep going

Kalimera neighbour

[xoNuraox]

hi everyone

can someone please tell me what this sentence means

"Isparta Piyade Komando"

in this case what does Piyade mean?

and also

my friends say bitanem instead of bir tanem

is there a difference between the two?

çok teşekür ederim =]

[NPazarka]

I don't think there's a difference between the two.
Perhaps they drop the 'r' in this case to make it easier/sound more fluent or cause the letter 'r' is hardly pronounced/silent.

[ilkin]

Originally Posted by xoNuraox

"Isparta Piyade Komando"

ısparta infantry commando

ısparta is a city south of turkey

in this case what does Piyade mean?

infantry (mil).

my friends say bitanem instead of bir tanem

is there a difference between the two?

no. as NPazarka observes correctly, r of bir is usually silent in speaking.

[Croat]

Merhaba

Thanks to everyone for helping us with learning Türkçe

http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/

here you can find many stuffs about grammar

Teşekkürler. Güle güle

[babybrian]

one of my american teachers tries to learn turkish..............result is real bad, he says that turkish is really complicated

[NPazarka]

A few things make it look like it's a complicated language (certainly when your language its grammer cannot be compared to it) but I think it's a very logical language. No one ever said that learning another language is a piece of cake.. It all depends, some people get it faster than others but where's a will, there's a way .

[xoNuraox]

NPazarka and ilkin

cok cok tesekur ederim

k i b

thank you so much again

this site is really helpful with people who forgot turkish :$

[aylin]

Originally Posted by NPazarka

A few things make it look like it's a complicated language (certainly when your language its grammer cannot be compared to it) but I think it's a very logical language. No one ever said that learning another language is a piece of cake.. It all depends, some people get it faster than others but where's a will, there's a way .

I agree with u plus i dont like the easy things

[babybrian]

no, turkish is not logical, that's the question
we take some words from other languages and bend it and use it
and turkish is also very very elastic, I mean, I love it from almost every word you can understand a rude thing ahh I love turkish !