Journal entry #7

[Mark Kligman]

 In this journal entry I will present some different variations of common greeting conversations in Turkish. A: Merhaba (Hi) B: Merhaba (Hi) A: Ben Haktan, senin adin ne? (I'm Haktan, what's your name?)  B: Ben Mark, memnun oldum. (I'm Mark, nice to meet you.) A: Ben de memnun oldum, nasilisin? (Nice to meet you too, how are you?) B: Sagol iyiyim, sen nasilsin? (I am good, and you?) A: Sagol, ben de iyiyim. (I am also good.) B:Gorusuruz! (Goodbye!) A: Hoscakal! (Bye!). We then worked on  some conjugations with an exercise where I had to write "I am a student" in all the different conjugation forms. It was presented as: ben ogrenciler, sen ogrenci, o ogrenciyiz, biz ogrencisiniz, six ogrencisin, onlar ogrenciyim. I corrected it to ben ogrenciyim, sen ogrencisin, o ogrenci, biz ogrenciyiz, six ogrencisiniz, onlar ogrenciler. Ben means I, sen means you, o means he/she/it, biz means we, six means the plural form of you, onlar means they. The basic ending for ben is in, sen is sin, o has no ending, biz is iz, siz is siniz, onlar is ler or lar depending on the vowel harmony consisting of back vowels a,i,u,o resulting in lar and the front vowels e,i,u,o resulting in ler. I also learned that bu means this, su means that, o means it and is adami means business man, ve means and, ev means house, muhendis means engineer, evhanimi means house wife, de means also.