Learn 10 phrases you always want to hear
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| Hello everyone. Herkese merhaba. Selin is here from TurkishClass101.com. Today, we are going to talk about 10 Phrases You Always Want to Hear. |
| 1. Bugün harika görünüyorsun. |
| “You look great today.” |
| Okay. The first one. Bugün harika görünüyorsun. |
| “You look great today.” |
| Well, then it’s really a great phrase to increase your motivation, I think. You can say it to your girlfriend, your mother. I mean everyone you love. So it’s a very nice Turkish phrase I think. It will make everyone happy. Believe me. |
| 2. Seni özlüyorum. |
| “I miss you.” |
| Well, actually it is a nice phrase and it is kind of sad that you’re missing someone. |
| Seni özlüyorum or you can say after Seni özlüyorum, Seni görmek istiyorum. |
| “I want to see you.” |
| So it will increase the effect of the first phrase. |
| Seni özlüyorum. Seni görmek istiyorum. |
| “I miss you. I want to see you.” |
| 3. Harika bir iş çıkardın! |
| “You did a great job!” |
| I’d like to hear that from my boss or from my teacher at school. |
| Harika bir iş çıkardın! |
| 4. Ayın sonunda bir ikramiye verilecek. |
| “There'll be a bonus at the end of the month.” |
| Ikramiye, it’s a wonderful word first of all, let me say. And we say bonus too but the spelling, the pronunciation is a bit different for us. |
| We say bonus or ikramiye. Both are same, same meaning but I think bonus comes from the English one but because both have the same meaning, you can use both. |
| So ikramiye verilecek, bonus verilecek. Same meaning. |
| 5. Biraz dinlen. Temizliği bugün ben yapacağım. |
| “Take a break. I'll do the cleaning today.” |
| Oh, it’s wonderful. Please do. There are so many things to do, right? |
| I mean, especially in Turkish houses like we have – we like large houses. So there are lots of things to do in terms of cleaning, I think. Cleaning, washing and everything. So if someone tells you like “take a break, I’ll do the cleaning today.” It’s like, oh, thank you. Awesome! |
| So Bugün ben yapacağım... |
| Biraz dinlen, it means, “you can take a break.” |
| 6. Ve sen kazandın! |
| “And you win!” |
| What would you like to win? |
| I would like to win a competition, actually. I like to compete. |
| So you can say someone like who win a competition, a contest, Ve sen kazandın! Or lottery. |
| Like if you win the lottery, you can use the same phrase again. |
| Ve sen kazandın! |
| 7. Haklıydın! |
| “You were right!” |
| This is I am sure Turkish girls will understand me again because like we would like to hear that we are right or Turkish girls think that we’d like to hear we are right. |
| So it is also another cliché phrase in Turkish like you just want to hear you are right. |
| I think that’s why they think it will make us happy to hear. |
| Sen haklısın. Hakliydin! |
| “You were right.” |
| 8. Sana özel bir şey getirdim. |
| “I brought you something special.” |
| It can be a present, right? So we say hediye, armağan, both mean “present.” |
| You can say, Sana hediye getirdim, sana armağan getirdim or sana özel bir şey getirdim. |
| It will make any person happy to get a present. |
| 9. Sen olmasan ne yapardım? |
| “What would I do without you.” |
| Wow! Very romantic, right? So you would like to use this phrase for who? |
| Well, for me, I would like to use it for my mother actually. Yeah. So I would like to say to her now. |
| Sen olmasan ne yapardım? Ha ha ha mother. |
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| 10. Yaşını göstermiyorsun. |
| “You don't show your age.” |
| I know this sentence. I know this one, this phrase makes many people happy but when I was in Turkey for example, they always told me that I don’t look my age. |
| So I look younger and I really hate that. I don’t know why because I think in Turkey, we don’t have very, like, sweet cute look but instead we prefer more like a cool, serious or more like a womanish look. |
| And if I look like a teenager even though I am a university student, then, I am not going to be happy about it, right? |
| So, I think if you say this phrase to everyone, then it doesn’t mean that it will make everyone happy but of course if you say it to like maybe middle-aged person like 30, 40, if you say, oh “you look younger” or “you don’t look your age”, then I think it will make those people happy. |
| Yaşını göstermiyorsun. |
| Okay. That’s all for today. I think this lesson was very fun, full of motivation. I hope you liked it. Tell me which one is your favorite phrase. |
| Okay, in my case, my favorite one is, sen olmasan ne yapardım? Because I am saying this to my mom. |
| So tell me your favorite one and I hope to see you guys in the next video. I will see you next time. Bye-bye. |
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