These past two weeks I learned how to state there is/are and there isn’t or aren’t statements. To state these sentence I learned that we use var, which is there is/are, and yok, which is there isn’t or aren’t. For example if I wanted to state if there is or there isn’t a computer, I would say “evde bilgisayar var” (there is a computer) or “evde bilgisayar yok” (there isn’t a computer). If you were asked a there is/are or there isn’t/aren’t question, you would still answer “evet” if you wanted to answer yes, and you would answer “hayir” (no), but you would not add degil. You would replace degil with yok. For example, if someone asked “Ofiste sekreter var mi?” (Is the secretary in the office?), you would reply no by saying “Hayir, ofiste sekreter yok”.
In the first two weeks or so, I had learned numbers. However, I had forgotten them and they appeared in the unit 2 packet, so we decided to learn numbers again. Previously we learned how to state phone numbers, but we also learned how to state the price of an object. If you wanted to ask how much something was, you would use “Kaç”. For example, if I wanted to ask how old are you, I would ask “Kaç yasindain?”. This literal translation if very similar to how you ask someone’s age in Korean, so the concept was easier to understand. I would answer, “yirmi iki” (22) to the question. If I wanted to ask the price of an object, for example, I would ask “1 kilo domates kaç lira?” which means “how much is 1 kilogram of tomatoes?”. The answer would simply be “1 lira” for example. If I wanted to ask the date, I would ask “Bugünün tarihi nedir?”. I would answer 27.04.2020 because the date comes up. I would say, “yirmi yedi, dört, iki bin yirmi”. If I wanted to ask someone’s phone number, I would ask, “Telefon numaraniz kaç?”
I learned past the 10 mark and continued to 1000 (bin), 10,000 (on bin), 100,000 (yüz bin), 1,000,000 (bir milyon), and 1,000,000,000 (bir milyar). It was relatively easy to learn numbers (sayilar) past ten because you would just add previous numbers. For example, in English we say ten thousand, and it works the same way in Turkish. We would say on bin.
I also learned the basic mathematical symbols in Turkish. Addition is “eklemek”, subtraction is çikarmak, multiplication is çarpmak, and division is bölünme. The equal sign is “esittir”.
I also learned how to say ordinal numbers which is “Kaçinci”. The rule is that you say the number (sai) then you say isim + (l)ncl. For example, if I said “Okul sekiznici sokakta”. It means that the school (okul) is on the eighth (sekiznici) sokakta (street). It was difficult to learn the ordinal numbers because I had to think and decide that the number value had to be ordinal, and then I would change it. This is a concept that I need to work and practice more.
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