Course lessons
- Saying hello, introducing yourself, saying goodbye
- The alphabet, reading, and vowel harmony
- Plurals: -lar/-ler
- Pronouns: I, you, who, what, this
- “I’m a student”, “we’re at home”: personal endings
- Hoş geldiniz, Hoş bulduk: how a guest is welcomed
- Asking a question: the particle mı
- Yes, no and “not”: evet, hayır, değil
- Where? The -da/-de/-ta/-te ending
- var and yok — “there is” and “there isn’t”
- Counting to a thousand
- Age, job, and where you are right now
- Market day, and calling a stranger “big brother”
- How many? kaç and the big numbers
- Days of the week, months, seasons
- Which one? The word hangi
- Tea instead of a clock: the day, glass by glass
- Words for “when”: in the morning, always, sometimes
- A verb’s dictionary form: -mak/-mek
- What you’re doing now: the -yor tense
- “I’m not doing it”: the negative
- Countries, peoples and languages: -ca/-ce
- Tavla in the tea garden, where the dice speak Persian
- Hi, how’s it going, bye — and who says which
- Asking with a verb: geliyor musun?
- “Aren’t you…?”: the negative question
- Where, where to, where from: the three cases of place
- Istanbul’s two shores, and the ferry between them
- Question words: who, what, why, how
- Being polite: please, thanks, softer ways to say yes and no
- Before and after: sonra and önce
- Slippers at the door, and baklava for the host
- Mine, yours, ours: possessive endings
- When a word pushes back: kitap → kitabım, isim → ismim
- Whose? The genitive case
- Congratulations and good wishes
- “I want to do it”: -mak istemek
- Bayram: sweets, kissing the elders’ hands, pocket money
- Family: who’s who
- “I’ve got”: var with an ending
- Izafet: three ways to pair two nouns
- A big sister stays abla for life
- On, under, next to, opposite: where things are
- North, south, east, west
- Asking the way
- Sea on three sides, and a Mediterranean called “white”
- Gel, gelin, gelsin, gelelim: asking, wishing, “let’s”
- At the market: prices, food, amounts
- In a clothes shop: colour and size
- The market talks in commands: where to haggle and where not to
- What time is it? Half past, quarter to, five to
- At what time? kaçta, geçe and kala
- From morning till night: -dan … -a kadar
- First, second, third
- Bigger, better, the best: comparisons
- “Five Turkish minutes”, and clocks that started at sunset
- Neyin var? What’s wrong, and where it hurts
- With and without: -lı and -sız
- With a friend, by bus: ile
- At the doctor’s and the pharmacy
- Geçmiş olsun, and the pharmacy on the night shift
- What happened: the past tense in -dı
- The past isn’t just for verbs
- Going to the cinema
- The -ki affix
- Yeşilçam, and TV episodes longer than a film
- Whom? What? The accusative case
- Verbs with and without an object
- Kitap or kitabı? When the ending comes
- At the hotel: a free room with a sea view
- Caravanserais, where a traveller stayed three days for free
- Acıktım! Hungry, full, and where to eat
- Reading the menu: mercimek çorbası, peynirli pide
- Ordering and paying: Bakar mısınız?
- Cooking it yourself: a Turkish recipe
- Turkish coffee, and the cup remembered for forty years
- Past halfway: what you can already do
- The questions people ask when you meet
- One verb and one noun in every form
- The karne: a Turkish school report card
- What’s going to happen: the future in -acak/-ecek
- The future isn’t just for verbs
- Going on holiday
- Like, and as … as: gibi and kadar
- İzmir and the Aegean coast
- “Apparently…”: the -mış tense
- Bir varmış, bir yokmuş: -mış without a verb
- In my view, according to: göre
- Coffee-cup fortunes and the blue bead
- Saw it or heard it: -dı versus -mış
- Did it, and then: -(y)ıp
- Someone’s words, quoted: diye
- Proverbs: what the ancestors said
- In my view, in yours: bence, sence, sizce
- Saying how: arkadaşça, yavaşça, iyice
- A bit, -ish: uzunca, büyükçe
- For hours, by the hundred: saatlerce, yüzlerce
- Canım, kuzum, pisi pisi: the words of fondness
- The aorist: çay içerim — always, usually, gladly
- The aorist’s no: içmem, olmaz
- Bakar mısınız? A question as a polite request
- Can and can’t: yapabilirim, yapamam
- Both, neither: hem… hem, ne… ne
- Avanos, where a pot sold for a potful of rice
- Beklemek zor: an action as the subject; gerek, lazım, yasak
- Gitmem lazım: “I need to” with -ma and “my”
- Beklemekten sıkıldım, gitmeye karar verdim: actions in every case
- Gelmeni istiyorum: “I want you to…” in one word
- Dondurma, bekleme salonu: -ma as a name
- The intercity bus: cologne in your palms and a break by law
- Gelmemi söyledi: “told me to come” in one word
- Gelmememi söyledi and Ne yapmamı istiyorsun?: “don’t”, and “what do you want me to do?”
- Rica etmek, istemek, emretmek: who was told, who was asked
- Bakış, yürüyüş, alışveriş: words in -ış
- Kapalıdır, aramaktadır: the -dır of signs, newspapers and guesses
- Jobs, job ads, the CV and the interview
- Apprentice, journeyman, usta — and the master’s certificate on the wall
- Futbol oynamak, spor yapmak: which sport takes which verb
- Hangi takımı tutuyorsun? Teams, matches, referees and fans
- Beklemeyip yürüdük: -mayıp — didn’t, and did something else
- Bakmadan geçme! -madan, “without” and “before”
- Maç başlamadan önce, maç bittikten sonra: before and after
- Filenin Sultanları, 12 Dev Adam — the national teams’ nicknames
- Senin için: “for” after a word, and niçin, “what for”
- Görmek için, anlaman için: “in order to”, for you and for someone else
- Görüşmek üzere: üzere, a stricter “in order to”
- Çıkmak üzereyim: “about to”, and -makta, “in the middle of it”
- Neden? Çünkü… — “because”
- Bu yüzden, bunun için, bu sebeple: “so”; yüzünden and sayesinde
- Ellerinden öperim, gözlerinden öperim: how a Turkish letter ends
- Arkadaşlarımızdanmışsınız: a whole sentence in one word
- One verb, another dozen jobs: everything added since Lesson 17
- Geliyorum, geleceğim or gelirim: three ways to say tomorrow
- Geldi or gelmiş: seen or heard
- Gitmek or gitmen: who does it
- -ıp, -madan, önce and sonra: two actions in one sentence
- Ye kürküm ye and Ya tutarsa: Nasreddin Hoca’s stories