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Selam arkadaşlar, ben Zehra. Hi everybody! I’m Zehra.
Welcome to TurkishClass101.com’s “3 dakikada Türkçe”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Turkish.
In the last lesson, we learned how to talk about age using yaşında, meaning “to be age at.”
Now we will talk about things you own. That will be the topic of this lesson.
Something you may be asked is Araban var mı? which means “Do you have a car?”
[slowly] Araban var mı?
Let’s take a closer look at this question.
Var mı, means “Do you have”. You can see that mı comes at the end of the sentences to make it a question.
Araban, means “your car”
So if you *do* have a car, how can you answer this question?
Just turn the noun “car” into the 1st person—it’s really simple!
The proper answer for the question would be-
“Evet, bir arabam var”
Yes, I have a car.
At the beginning we used Evet -- you may remember this from previous lessons as “Yes”. Then we used bir arabam. Pay attention to this point: “araba” means “a car”. Remember the last question? Araban var mı? Here an -n was added to make it “your car”. In this case, an -m at the end of the word araba makes it “my car”. bir arabam means “one my car”.
Then last we have var which is “to have”.
All together the sentence is;
Evet bir arabam var.
[slowly] Evet bir arabam var.
Now let’s say for example, that a classmate wants to borrow a pen from you. He might ask, Bir kalemin var mı? which is “Do you have a pen?”
If you only have a red pen, you can answer Kırmızı bir kalemim var. “I have a red pen.”
Okay, so now let’s look at the formal way to ask someone if he or she has something.
Instead of using ‘araban’, which is first person singular, we are supposed to use ‘arabanız’ which is the first person plural version. This difference creates the formal and informal language in Turkish. Then the rest of the sentence is exactly the same.
Arabanız var mı?
[slowly] Arabanız var mı?
If you add affedersiniz (“excuse me”) at the beginning of the sentence, that will make it even more polite and formal.
Now it’s time for Zehra’s tips.
If you want to ask a question that you already know the answer to but you just want to be sure, you can use the word değil mi. Here’s an example.
Bir köpeğin var değil mi? This literally means “You have a dog, don't you?”
You just add the little word değil mi after the sentence.
In recent lessons, we have learned about the verbs yaşındasın, “to be at age”, and var, “to have”.
Next time we’ll learn how to use these two verbs in their negative forms in order to say “I’m not at the age” and “I don’t have”.
Did you know that to turn a verb into the negative form in Turkish, you just have to add two little words?
I'll be waiting to tell you how in the next 3 dakikada Türkçe lesson.
Görüşmek üzere!

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