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Learn how to say where you're from
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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 |
I |
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 |
li |
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 |
I |
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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