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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