Learn how to ask about someone's age
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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 two lessons, we learned the main usages of the suffix -de, which means “to be at” in Turkish. |
| In this lesson, we are going to learn to talk about your age. |
| It’s normal for young people in Turkey to ask each other’s age. Of course, it might be risky to ask it to people over 25! |
| If someone asks you Kaç yaşındasın? just know that it means “How old are you?” in formal Turkish. |
| [slowly] Kaç yaşındasın? |
| In informal Turkish, it would be: Kaç yaşındasınız? |
| [slowly] Kaç yaşındasınız? |
| Or you can use the reverse version, “what is your age?” which is |
| Yaşınız kaç? |
| [slowly] Yaşınız kaç? |
| Yaşınız means “your age” and kaç means “what?” |
| Now you have to answer with your age! |
| Here are some examples. |
| “I am 18” - On sekiz yaşındayım. |
| “I am 20” - Yirmi yaşındayım. |
| “I am 25” - Yirmi beş yaşındayım. |
| “I am 40” - Kırk yaşındayım. |
| Can you see what is happening here? We start with sentence On sekiz yaşındayım, “I am 18” |
| All you need to do here is put your age at the beginning and say yaşındayım’ afterward. As you may remember from the previous lesson, the -da suffix is used for “at”. And that gives the meaning “at my age”. |
| [slowly] On sekiz yaşındayım. |
| Sometimes young Turkish people won’t ask your age directly, but instead, will ask your birth year. |
| You might hear this question in an informal situation: |
| Kaçlısın? |
| [slowly] Kaçlısın? |
| This literally means “Of which year are you?” |
| You just have to answer using the last twp figures of your birth year: |
| Seksen yediliyim which literally means “I am of 87.” |
| Now it’s time for Zehra’s Insights. |
| Were you born in the year 2000? I’m sorry, you can’t say that you are of zero-zero. You have to say the entire year. This would be İki bin doğumluyum. |
| In this lesson, we learned how to talk about your age and birthdate using yaşındasın. Next time, we’ll learn how to use this verb for talking about possessions. |
| I'll be waiting for you in the next 3 dakikada Türkçe lesson. |
| Görüşürüz! |
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