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1. Time Turkish Chat

Let´s start with simple dialogue sentences about time, the question and different answers. Open mini chat

Time - English Turkish (Parantheses for explanation only) New in Forums

Should ,means and others difficulties
What time is it? Saat kaç? ulak: ... ... ya da ... olsalarda, herkesin yemek ... ...
... y...
It is ten o´clock. Saat on (10). as low as
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It is five past ten. Saat onu (10-i) be! (5) geçiyor. as ...
Ona göre
It is five past five. Saat be!i (5-i) be! (5) geçiyor. si++: Literally: x´e göre = as it looks to x, how it l
to...
It is five past six. Saat altıyı (6-[y]-i) be! (5) geçiyor. Turkish to English
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It is five past three. Saat üçü (3-i) be! (5) geçiyor.
5 kilo fazlam var...
It is quarter past ten. Saat onu (10-i) çeyrek (quarter) geçiyor. Abla: Thank you for your answers, AlphaF, gokuyu
ikicihan.
It is ten twenty. Saat onu (10-i) yirmi (20) geçiyor. lyrics translation please
nifrtity: I will search for this lyrics more but I didn
It is half past ten. Saat on (10) buçuk (half). it please help me ...
turkish to english please
It is ten thirty five. Saat on bire (11-e) yirmi be! (25) var. sam1: ...
Turkish to English
It is ten forty. Saat on bire (11-e) yirmi (20) var. insallah: Selam Cnm, bizi hatirladin yine, cok sag
bir gundu ama hava sog...
It is quarter to eleven. Saat on bire (11-e) çeyrek (quarter) var. sahip (olmak)?
Abla: sahip is an Arabic loanword which means ...
It is ten to eleven. Saat on bire (11-e) on (10) var. as any noun. As...

It is eleven. Saat on bir (11). Please help me translate T-E

rubyraven7: Thanks Tunci! I really appreciate you
Please let me know if I...
seni annen mi giydirdi?
Now, time to explain the words and phrases used in this table. Let´s start with the question, ´Saat Abla: ... by the way, do you have the Turkish loanw
in Swedish?
kaç?´. Word by word: colloquial in future tense
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Saat --> Hour informal and ...

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It is not perfectly logical, but the question sentence used for asking the time is ´Saat kaç?´. Then, Random Pictures of Turkey

you may say, how do you ask how many hours? To say ´How many hours?´ you would say ´Kaç
saat?´. ´Saat kaç?´ is a special phrase for asking the time which otherwise would not be very

meaningful. More or less the same is true for the answer. The best thing is to try to learn the main
phrase instead of trying to learn the logic, because the logic used here does not apply to other cases
in the language. You basically say "Saat xxx.".

From the exact hour to half past, you say the time as minutes past hour. From half past to the next
hour, convention is to sat the time as minutes to hour.
The word for past is ´geçiyor´. Add thumbnails like this to your site

The word for to is ´var´. Most commented

The word for half is ´buçuk´.

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The word for quarter is ´çeyrek´.
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The general phrase for "It is minutes past hours" is:
Saat hours-i minutes geçiyor. (Note the vowel harmony rules for the suffix -i)
And the general phrase for "It is minutes to hours" is: Profile of CHiZZY

Saat hours-e minutes var. (Note the vowel harmony rules for the suffix -e)

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2. Date
Let´s start with the days of the week and months:
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English Turkish
Days of the week
Ay!e
Sunday Pazar
Monday Pazartesi Story by erdinc

Tuesday Salı Alphabet

Wednesday Çar!amba
Turkish lesson by admin
Thursday Per!embe Level: beginner
Friday Cuma Lesson 4: Names of nations
countries
Saturday Cumartesi
Turkish lesson by metehan
Months Level: beginner
January Ocak
Antalya - Kaleici
February "ubat
March Mart Picture by slavica
April Nisan
May Mayıs Noun states

June Haziran
Turkish lesson by admin
July Temmuz Level: beginner
August A#ustos
Turkish Class on Twitter
September Eylül
October Ekim
November Kasım
December Aralık

2.1. Day of the week

A simple conversation about the day of the week would be like the following:

English Turkish
A. What´s the day? A. Bugün günlerden ne?

B1. Today is Monday. B1. Bugün günlerden pazartesi.

B2. Monday. B2. Pazartesi.

Let´s examine the parts of the question sentence first:

bu --> this
gün --> day
bugün --> today
günler --> days
günler --> days
günlerden --> from the days (also means among the days)
ne --> what

Putting all these words together, the direct translation of ´Bugün günlerden ne?´ would be ´Today
among the days what?´. Funny? That´s the way you ask the day of the week. After these
explanations and translations, the answer sentence should be clear.

2.2. Whole Date

To ask the date, you say:
-Bugünün tarihi ne?
-14 Temmuz 2004.

Vocabulary:
bugün --> today
tarih --> date
bugünün tarihi --> today´s date
ne --> what

Using these, the direct translation of the question sentence would be: ´Today´s date what? ´.
Actually, this is how you form a regular question sentence in Turkish. You shouldn´t worry about
this yet, we´ll cover it later in another lesson.

The answer doesn´t need much explanation. The day number, followed by month´s name, and
finally the year. The day number and the year are both read as a regular numbers. For reading
years, it is always read as a whole as a single number. Years are never read as two parts like it is done
in English in the case of 1996 (nineteen ninety six). The way you read this year in Turkish would be
´bin dokuz yüz doksan altı´ (one thousand nine hundred ninety six).

3. Seasons
Let´s see the words used for seasons in Turkish:

English Turkish
spring bahar or ilkbahar

summer yaz
fall, autumn sonbahar or güz
winter kı!
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Comments (32)

shemo_as Oct 07 + -
thank u very much, that was really helpful, but if u can add the suffix Report
after every number, for clock, it will be more helpful (+2)

hananesp 7/8/2011 + -
similar to Arabic ty 4 this lesson Report
(+2)

smskt79 4/9/2011 + -
rosemoon it is not a typing mistake. it means 20 minutes left to be 11 o Report
´clock. just remember that the word "var" when telling the time means (+2)
the minutes that are left to complete a whole hour. so when we say "saat
on bire on var" means it is 10:50, it´s 10 minutes before 11 o´clock (the
suffix -e is the -ye dative suffix).
Last modified:4/10/2011

simiP 1/4/2011 + -
VERY HELPFUL...THANKS Report
(-1)

rosemoon 11/30/2010 + -
guess there´s typing mistake It is ten forty. Saat on bire (11-e) yirmi (2 Report
var. and in all similar sentences. either in english must be ten or in (-2)
turkish ten. anyway useful lesson, many thanks

tala15 11/19/2010 + -
the turkish months are Similar to the Arabic months Report
it was easy for me (+1)

claire01 11/10/2010 + -
how do u fınd the excersises? Report

albanian_girl91 9/10/2010 + -
Thank you! Report

Elva 9/3/2010 + -
This one was a fun and useful one. Report

omkada 8/7/2010 + -
thank you very much about this lesson Report

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