Lesson Transcript

Welcome to TurkishClass101.com
I'm Seda. Today, we'll learn how to count in Turkish.
Don't worry, it's easy. Generally people get intimidated about learning the numbers, but in Turkish it's not that complicated.
So let's start, okay?
1 bir
2 iki
3 üç
4 dört
5 beş
6 altı
7 yedi
8 sekiz
9 dokuz
10 on
See?
It's easy.
Now let's count together.
1 bir
2 iki
3 üç
4 dört
5 beş
6 altı
7 yedi
8 sekiz
9 dokuz
10 on
Very good job!
Okay, now you know how to count till 10.
And from 10 to 100 it's really easy in Turkish.
You just need to learn the 10, 20, 30 numbers.
Then you just add the numbers you already know.
So let's start with 10.
We already know it.
10 is on.
Yes.
So if you want to say for example "11" we add 10 and 1 together in Turkish.
First we say 10, then we say 1 and it makes 11.
So there is no new number for 11 as in English.
So it is "on bir".
So let's go like that.
That was 2 in Turkish.
It was iki.
So we put 10 on, iki
On iki
Yes, very good.
So let's count together from 10 to 19.
Okay?
11 on bir
12 on iki
13 on üç
14 on dört
15 on beş
16 on altı
17 on yedi
18 on sekiz
And the last one is nineteen.
Can you guess?
Yes.
19 on dokuz
So, let's count a little bit faster together.
11 on bir
12 on iki
13 on üç
14 on dört
15 on beş
16 on altı
17 on yedi
18 on sekiz
19 on dokuz
Very good.
Now this is the rule and you can use this rule for all the numbers for 25, 37, 48.
You just need to know those numbers then you add the other numbers.
Let's learn 20, okay?
20 yirmi
30 otuz
40 kırk
50 elli
60 altmış
70 yetmiş
80 seksen
90 doksan
And that's it!
When you know these numbers, you can make any number you want.
Let's try to make 25.
We add 20, then 5 together.
25 yirmi beş
Okay, let's make 72.
How to make it?
For 70, then 2.
Okay?
72 yetmiş iki
Or let's make 91.
91 doksan bir
Or
64 altmış dört
Okay, so it's not that bad, right?
Okay, very good.
Now we need to learn the hundreds and thousands.
But don't worry, you just need to learn two words.
For hundreds, you just need to know a hundred because you will edit one and hundred, two and hundred, three and hundred.
It's like in English and for the thousand you need to learn thousand, one thousand, two thousand, three thousand.
So you just need to learn two more new words.
For hundred we say: yüz
and I have a funny fact for you.
Actually, “yüz” means three different things in Turkish.
One is “face”
Maybe you know it.
Yeah “yüz” “my face” I would say “yüzüm”
and another word is “yüz” means “to swim”.
Yeah and 100.
I know they are not connected at all, they just have the same word for different meanings.
We sometimes have that in Turkish.
So let's practice together okay.
We know “yüz”.
So if we want to say 200 we would say “iki yüz” or if we want to say 500 we would say “beş yüz” and it goes like that.
And for 1000 we have the word “bin” and again “bin” means also “to ride” or to yeah it means “to ride” for example “ata binmek” make “to ride a horse” so if you see bin in a regular sentence don't get confused about it but the rest is the same. We add the number then we say “bin” and we make that big number for example let's say five thousand we just add “beş bin” or let's say nine thousand “dokuz bin”.
Now we know the new year is 2020 so if we want to say 2020, how would we say it?
iki bin yirmi
Okay, let's try some other date.
Let's say we want to say 1982.
Okay, as a year.
It's 1982.
we would say “bin dokuz yüz seksen iki”
That's not that hard, right?
Okay, before I go I want to talk to you about something.
Sometimes we have some words related to numbers but they are not Turkish they are either Parsi or Arabic it's coming from the old Turkish to Ottoman Turkish and for example we have a saying that we have a saying "sittin sene" it means that like forever or never we use it like that in a sentence for example In this sense: Eğer giderse onu sittin sene göremem.
It means, "if he goes, if she goes, I won't be able to see him or her forever."
In this sense, sittin sene means "never," "forever."
But in reality, sittin means 60 in Arabic and we use it like this.
Probably in Ottoman times, people knew what sittin means, but in these modern times, not many people know it, but we have that in our language.
And another example, we Turkish people love to play tavla.
It's a game, Beckhamon.
And when especially in Old Man cafes, we call them kahve. They play back and forth a lot and they have their own special sayings when playing tavla.
So for example, "şeşbeş"
So one of the words is here is Turkish and the other one is Arabic. And I'm not gonna tell you, okay? Just think about it, search a little and leave the answer below in the comment section, what is şeş beş.
Okay, I hope you enjoyed this lesson. I will see you next time. Bye!
Want to speed up your language learning? Take your very first lesson with us. You'll start speaking in minutes and master real conversations. Sign up for your free lifetime account. Just click the link in the description.

Comments

Hide