Saying Where You're From - Part 1

Learn how to say where you're from

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Lesson Transcript

Hey you guys! Merhaba!

Ben Serdar Süreal.

Welcome to another Whiteboard Turkish Lessons.

Today we have a fun topic.

We will be talking about how to say where you are from in Turkish of course.

Let's get started.

Let's first look at our dialogue.

Nerelisin

Ben Ankaraliyim

Nerelisin

Ben Ankaraliyim

What do you think this means?

Let's see.

Where are you from?

And you answer

I'm from Ankara.

Nerelisin

Ben Ankaraliyim

Okay

let's see the structure.

Ben

we put the place after Ben.

Okay,

this can be Ankara, Izmir, Istanbul, Washington, New York, London, Paris

I don't know, any place.

And after that

we have the suffixes

this is added to the place

it means from this place.

This suffix means from this place, okay?

Placeli means from place.

And this yim at the end

yim

it means I am, I am, okay?

This is the suffix.

That's why if you like

you don't even have to say Ben

you can just omit it.

You can just say place and yim

then I would understand you are talking about I, okay?

Because this says

I Ben here.

But what do we have here?

We have li,

but we have li, lu, lü.

So this can change, either it can be li or lu or lü.

But why? Because of the vowel harmony rules.

It's a, you know, big rule, you should

you know, work on it before.

But let me put it this way

it depends on the last vowel of the word.

So if it's Ankara, as you can see, it is Ankara, lu.

So it changes, you will see and learn in time, don't worry.

And when you look at this, it's the same

li becomes liyim, liyum, liyüm according to vowel harmony rules.

And the easy thing, if this is li, this is yim.

If this is lu, this is yum.

Lu, yum, lü, yüm.

So you just need to learn one.

Okay

was that easy?

little bit

Don't worry, you'll get in time.

Now, let's look at the word ben.

Okay

let's look at our vocabulary.

Ben

nerelisin

nereli, where you are

desin at the end

you.

Okay

where are you from

nerelisin

and you can say a lot of things.

You can talk about country

you can talk about your village

you can talk about your city,

you can just use this pattern and you can answer accordingly.

Let's look at some examples, okay?

Let's see the examples.

İstanbulluyum.

See, we use different suffix here.

I'm from Istanbul.

İzmerliyim.

I'm from İzmir.

Urfalıyım.

I'm from Urfa.

Ürdünlüyüm.

I'm from Jordan.

Do you see we have different suffixes here?

Luyum, Liyim, Liyim, and Lüyüm.

So we have four

and you can guess

where to put what

but as I said before you can check out the vowel harmony rules to know exactly.

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