Lesson Transcript

Hello! Merhaba!
What's up everyone?
Welcome to another Turkish whiteboard lessons.
Today we have a fun topic.
We will talk about how to give your name in Turkish.
Are you guys ready?
Let's get started.
First, let's look at our dialogue.
Merhaba, Ben Demir Dilber. Memnun oldum.
Ben de memnun oldum. Ben Defne Deniz
Now let's look at the English translation.
Hello, I'm Demir Dilber. Pleased to meet you.
I'm also pleased to meet you. I'm Defne Deniz
Do you see the structure here?
Let's look at the structure.
Let's see our sentence pattern.
Ben [Name]
Ben Seda, for example.
Or you can say,
Adım [Name].
Again, same structure.
Ben [Name]
Adım [Name]
Ben Seda
Adım Seda
Easy, right?
Okay, let's see what we have here.
The grammar.
Okay, let's see the grammar.
As you can see, to be verb
often omitted in Turkish, which makes it very much easier.
Ben means I.
As you can see, you don't say I am.
You just say I.
Ben
Ben Seda
Or let's look at this one.
Adım
This means my name.
My name
As you can see, we don't have my name is.
We don't have M is are.
We don't have the to be.
Ben Adım
That's it.
Just one word.
If you learn that one word, you can say your name in Turkish.
Okay, let's see what we have next.
We have the vocabulary.
Let's see our Turkish vocabulary first.
Merhaba
This means hello.
And I want to say something.
Normally, we don't read the H in merhaba.
We say
Merhaba
Let's see the next one
Memnun oldum
Pleased to meet you.
Let's see the next one.
Ben de memnun oldum.
I'm also pleased to meet you.
Okay?
Okay, let's see the next part.
Let's see our linguistic insight.
If you want to say this, pleased to meet you, in a full proper form,
you would say
Tanıştığımıza memnun oldum.
Okay?
I'm pleased to meet you.
But literally, tanıştığımıza means that we met.
I'm pleased that we met.
How this goes?
Tanışmak.
Okay?
This is to meet.
And when you add tanıştığımıza, this is the suffix.
A little bit complicated for now.
But this makes the sentence that we met.
So, memnun oldum.
I am pleased that we met.
Okay?
So, you know the formal structure as well.

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