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I Missed My Flight Made with love.
I missed my flight last week. It was really frustrating, so I wrote this
lesson to turn my misfortune into your educational experience.
Dialog
Dialog Translation
5 | Beyza There was a lof of traffic. That's why I was late to the airport.
Language Points
Being Polite
Just as would you please pass the salt is more polite than give me the salt, there are certain sentence
constructions in Turkish that are considered more polite than others.
At the cost of being more difficult to form and say, using the -ebil suffix to say can I is much more polite than using
the simple commands (like gel, ver, git).
Bir bira alabilir miyim?
May I have a beer?
Turkish also has a special polite way to say you that you should use when speaking to strangers, employees, or
your superiors. Whereas the informal suffixes of you are -in and -sin, the formal suffixes are -iniz and -siniz. The
respective pronouns are sen (you) and siz (formal you).
Kediniz.
Your cat.
I Have a Problem
Here are some useful phrases for letting someone know that you need something.
İmdat!
Help! (in emergencies)
By Bus
Turkish uses the with suffix le/la to express how one traveled: by bus, by car, by spaceship.
Otobüsle gidiyoruz.
We are going by bus.
Vapurla geldiler.
They came by ferry boat.
Vocabulary
kaçırmak to snatch
uçak airplane
bilet ticket
almak to buy
hanımefendi lady
yol way
sorun problem
havalimanı airport
konu issue
Review
a. Uçağımı kaçırdım.
b. Buyurun.
d. Tabii ki.
2. Which of the following is the most polite way to ask for the salt?
b. Tuzu verin.
d. Tuzu ver.
a. Otobüsla.
b. Vapurla.
c. Arabayle.
d. Gemiyle.
e. Uçakle.
f. Dolmuşla.
Answer Key
1. b
2. a
3. d
4. b d f
5. Vapurla gidiyorum , Ben vapurla gidiyorum
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