Learn how to make basic comparisons
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| Hi everyone, I'm Seda Surerl! |
| merhaba ben Seda Surerl! |
| welcome to another Turkish whiteboard lessons. |
| In this lesson, you will learn how to make basic comparisons in Turkish. |
| Are you guys ready? |
| Let's get started. |
| Okay, let's look at our vocabulary first. |
| Küçük |
| Küçük |
| Small |
| Büyük |
| Büyük |
| Big |
| Kalabalık |
| Kalabalık |
| Crowded |
| Kadim |
| Kadim |
| Ancient |
| Yağmurlu |
| Yağmurlu |
| Rainy |
| Soğuk |
| Soğuk |
| Cold |
| Küçük |
| Büyük |
| Kalabalık |
| Kadim |
| Yağmurlu |
| Soğuk |
| Okay, these are our vocabulary. |
| And we have our Turkish city names here. |
| Let's go over them. |
| İstanbul |
| Ankara |
| İzmir |
| Van |
| Artvin |
| Urfa |
| İstanbul |
| Ankara |
| İzmir |
| Van |
| Artvin |
| Urfa |
| Okay? |
| Okay, now let's go over the dialogue. |
| When I read the dialogue |
| I want you to take notice on the adjectives and what comes before the adjectives. |
| İstanbul kalabalık mı? |
| Is Istanbul crowded? |
| İstanbul Artvin'den daha kalabalık? |
| Istanbul is more crowded than artvin? |
| Okay, now let's check our other two examples here. |
| And again, I want you to find the adjectives |
| and notice what comes before them. |
| Van İstanbul'dan daha soğuk. |
| Van is colder than Istanbul. |
| Urfa, Ankara'dan daha Kadim. |
| Urfa is more ancient than Ankara. |
| Okay, now let's check our sentence pattern. |
| It is here. |
| This is the Turkish sentence pattern and this is the English one. |
| First, place 1. |
| I want you to see the dialogue as well. |
| Van |
| Place 1 |
| Van |
| Place 2 |
| Istanbul |
| Then we have our suffixes here. |
| den / dan / ten / tan. |
| You may ask why we have four. |
| I'm not going to go into that rule right now, but because of the vowel harmony rules |
| these vowels change and the consonants change. |
| So you need to pick the right suffix for the right place name. |
| After you choose one, you will use Daha. |
| And then you will put the adjective there. |
| Okay? |
| [Place 1] [Place 2] den / dan / ten / tan (One of these) Daha an adjective. |
| And you already know the English word place is more adjective than place 2. |
| Like Urfa is more ancient than Ankara. |
| But let's look at the Turkish version. |
| Van İstanbul'dan daha soğuk. |
| adjective |
| Or |
| İstanbul Artvin'den |
| Here you see Den. |
| daha kalabalık? |
| Den Daha is more than Kalabalık is our adjective. |
| And let's see the other example. |
| Urfa, Ankara'dan |
| Again here you see "dan" |
| Daha Kadim |
| And this is our adjective. |
| Okay, fun fact that Turkish people, although we are proud of Turkey, |
| everybody is coming from some city and their homeland, |
| home cities such as these are like really a source of pride for most of Turkish people. |
| And, you know, we love to compare and contrast. |
| So you might see Turkish people using these basic comparison sentence pattern |
| to really compare our cities between each other. |
| So don't be surprised to see this dialogue in real life. |
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