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Below you will find lots of useful words that you can use during your holiday and when buying a property…
Basic Phrases
Yes Evet
No Hayir
Please Lutfen
Thank you Tesekkur ederim
Hello merhaba/selam
Goodbye hoscakal/hosckalin or allahaismarladik [if you are the person leaving]
gule gule [if you are the person seeing someone off]
Good morning gunaydin
Good evening iyi aksamlar
How are you? Nasilsiniz?/ne haber?
I am well iyiyim
I don’t understand anlamiyorum
Where is…? Nerede…?
Left sol
Right sag
Here burada
There surada
There is var
There is none yok[general used much more than hayir to denote ‘no’]
Excuse me affedersi.affedersiniz [polite form]or pardon.ozurdilerim
Wait a minute birdakika lutfen
Cheap ucuz
Expensive pahali
Airport havaalani/havalimani
Bus station otogar/terminal
Train station tren stasyonu/tern gari
Petrol station benzin istasyonu/benzilik
Bank banka
Restaurant lokanta/restaurant/restoran
Numbers
One bir
Two iki
Three uc
Four dort
Five bes
Six alti
Seven yedi
Eight sekiz
Nine dokuz
Ten on
Eleven onbir
Twelve oniki
Thirteen onuc
Fourteen ondurt
Fifteen onbes
Sixteen onalti
Seventeen onyedi
Eighteen onsekiz
Nineteen ondokuz
Twenty yirmi
Thirty otuz
Forty kirk
Fifty elli
Sixty atmis
Seventy yetmis
Eighty seksen
Ninety doksan
One hundred yuz
Two hundred ikiyuz
One thousand bin
One hundred thousand yuzbin
One million bir milyon
One billion bir milyar
Time
When? Ne zaman?
Yesterday dun
Today bugun
Tomorrow yarin
Later sonar
In the morning sabahleyin,ogleden once
At noon ogleyin,oglen,ogie
In the afternoon ogleden sonar
In the avening aksamleyi
Days
Sunday Pazar
Monday Pazartesi
Tuesday Sali
Wednesday carsamba
Thursday persembe
Friday Cuma
Saturday Cumartesi
Months
January ocak
February subat
March mart
April nisan
May mayiz
June haziran
July temmuz
August agustos
September eylul
October ekim
November kasim
December aralik
Signs
Stop dur
No entry girilmez
No smoking sigara icilmez
City centre sehir merkezi
Entrance giris
Exit cikis
Toilet wc/tuvalet
Gentlemen bay
Ladies bayan