پادکست ترکی استانبولی: درس سوم (مبتدی)

İsim, ad
Name

Adınız ne? / İsminiz ne?
What’s your name

I want you to pay attention to the vowels in the word ‘isim’. It became ‘isminiz’ when attached a suffix to ‘isim’. This phenomenon is called ‘vowel loss’.

The reason for this phenomenon is that it’s easier to say ‘isminiz’ than ‘isiminiz’ for natives.

Buyurun, buyrun
Here you go

In spoken Turkish, you hear ‘buyrun’ instead of ‘buyurun’. However, the correct writing of the word is ‘buyurun’.

İzin
Permission

Oturma izni
Residence permit

Oturma izniniz
Your residence permit

Oturma izniniz var mı?
Do you have residence permit

Vize
Visa

Vizem
My visa

Vizem var
I have visa
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Ne?
What?

Nere?
What/What place?

Ankara nere?
Ankara is the capital of Turkey

Ankara nerede?
Ankara is in the Central Anatolia

Nereli?
Where from?

Nerelisin?
Where are you from?

Nerelisiniz?
Where are you from? (Formal or plural)

As you know, the idea is to attach suffixes. -de/da is the suffix that indicates location.

Otomobilde
In the car

Telefonda
In the phone

Türkiye’de
In Turkey

Nereli?
Where from?

Ankaralı
From Ankara

Kuzey Amerikalı
From North America

Amerikan
American/From North America

Yunan
Greek/From Greece

Alman
German

Italyan
Italian

This pattern is not the same for all the words indicating nations. For example,

İngiliz
English

Fransız
French

Rus
Russian

Japon
Japonese

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Nereden
From where

Atina’dan
From Athens

Türkiye’den
From Turkey

When attaching certain types of suffixes (-A, -DA, -DAn, -I, etc) to the proper nouns, an apostrophe separates the suffix with the word. For some suffixes (-lI, -lIk), you don’t need to use an apostrophe. We’ll be distinguishing these suffixes in the later lessons.

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Oturma izniniz
Your residence permit (formal or plural)

Vizeniz
Your visa (formal or plural)

Kimliğiniz
Your ID (formal or plural)

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Oturma iznin
Your residence permit

Vizen
Your visa

Kimliğin
Your ID

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Oturma iznim
Vizem
Kimliğim
My …

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Yunanım
I’m Greek

Türküm
I’m Turkish

-Im gives the meaning of “I am”.

Yunansın
You’re Greek

Türksün
You’re Turkish

-sIn gives the meaning of “you are”.

Uzunum
I’m tall

This topic and suffixes for each pronoun will be covered in detail in the video Verb ‘to be’.