SDLC 110 Turkish #5

[Noraya Razzaque]

Nerelisin?

(Where are you from?)

add other questions about what nationality are you? what country are you from?

In order to say where you're from, you take the country and drop suffixes such as "ya", "istan", or "iye" and you get your nationality. There are exceptions, as there always is, and those require memorization or further knowledge of Turkish grammatical structures. 

When talking about the language of a country, there is a suffix that attaches to the end of the word using vowel harmony. For these vowels: ........... the suffix is ca while it is çe for these vowels: .............

Ülke (country)

Milliyet/uyruk (nationality)

Ülke                            Milliyet

Italya                           Italyanca

Türkiye                       Türkçe

Japonya                    Japonca

Rusya                        Rusça

Yunanistan                Yunonca

Suriye                        Suriyeli (Arapça)

Isponya                     Isponyolca

Amerika                     Amerikan/Amerikali

Bangladeş                 Bangladeşli

Fransa                       Fransizca

Ingiltere                     Ingilizce

Almanya                    Almanca

 

I also started learning about professions. There are a good chunk of words that are the same as English, French, and Arabic, so it should be easier to remember. For example, the word for pilot is pilot (but with Turkish pronunciations).