Learn how to ask about someone's nationality
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| Selam arkadaşlar, ben Zehra. Hi everybody! I’m Zehra. |
| Welcome to TurkishClass101.com’s “3 dakikada Türkçe”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Turkish. |
| In the last lesson, we learned how to talk about your plans. In this lesson, we will discuss how to talk about your nationality. |
| When you meet a new person in Turkey, they might ask you Nerelisiniz? which is the equivalent of "Where do you come from?" or ‘Where are you from?’ |
| Although it is one word sentence we can quickly look at it by breaking apart. |
| Nere means where |
| nere-li means from where |
| As you may recall from previous lessons |
| the -siniz appendix represents the formal way of addressing ‘you’. |
| All together it's Nerelisiniz? |
| [slowly] Nerelisiniz? |
| Answering this question is very easy! You just say Ben, which means "I am", then your nationality. |
| For example: Ben Amerikalıyım. |
| [slowly] Ben Amerikalıyım. |
| Just replace “Amerikalıyım” with your own nationality. |
| "I am German" is Ben Almanım. |
| "I am Italian" is Ben İtalyanım. |
| "I am Brazilian" is Ben Brazilyalıyım. |
| To return the question you can simply say Ya siz? which is "And you?" in a polite way. |
| Now it’s time for Zehra’s tips. |
| Be careful because in Turkish, we do write nationality names with a capital letter like in English! That shows respect to the nationalities while writing. |
| In this lesson we learned how to talk about nationalities. |
| Next time we’ll continue to study the verb olmak and we'll see how to use it to talk about locations. By the way, do you know how to ask someone where they are in Turkish? I'll be waiting for you with the answer in the next 3 dakikada Türkçe lesson. |
| Görüşmek üzere! |
Comments
HideMerhaba Patricia,
In Turkish we have 2 different you's.
Sen: Singular and informal
Siz: either "singular & formal" or just "plural"
So "nerelisiniz" is "where you from" But you in there is "siz"
So it can be either plural or singular but formal...
When it comes to where to use it as a formal one, when you feel like the person you are talking to need to be addressed in a formal way.
Hope it helps.
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Seda
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Hekmatullah Merhaba,
You can go to Dashboard and choose the lessons you want there... You can even add the lessons to your learning pathway! 😁
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Seda
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Merheba!
In what situations can you use the informal instead of Nerelisiniz? And what is the informal version of "where are you from"?
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