How to Give Your Name in Turkish – Part 1

Hello! Merhaba! What’s up everyone? Welcome to another Turkish whiteboard lessons. Today we have a fun topic. We will talk about how to give your name in Turkish. Are you guys ready? Let’s get started. First, let’s look at our dialogue. Merhaba, Ben Demir Dilber. Memnun oldum. Ben de memnun oldum. Ben Defne Deniz Now let’s look at the English translation. Hello, I’m Demir Dilber. Pleased to meet you. I’m also pleased to meet you. I’m Defne Deniz Do you see the structure here? Let’s look at the structure. Let’s see our sentence pattern. Ben [Name] Ben Seda, for example. Or you can say, Adım [Name]. Again, same structure. Ben [Name] Adım [Name] Ben Seda Adım Seda Easy, right? Okay, let’s see what we have here. The grammar. Okay, let’s see the grammar. As you can see, to be verb often omitted in Turkish, which makes it very much easier. Ben means I. As you can see, you don’t say I am. You just say I. Ben Ben Seda Or let’s look at this one. Adım This means my name. My name As you can see, we don’t have my name is. We don’t have M is are. We don’t have the to be. Ben Adım That’s it. Just one word. If you learn that one word, you can say your name in Turkish. Okay, let’s see what we have next. We have the vocabulary. Let’s see our Turkish vocabulary first. Merhaba This means hello. And I want to say something. Normally, we don’t read the H in merhaba. We say Merhaba Let’s see the next one Memnun oldum Pleased to meet you. Let’s see the next one. Ben de memnun oldum. I’m also pleased to meet you. Okay? Okay, let’s see the next part. Let’s see our linguistic insight. If you want to say this, pleased to meet you, in a full proper form, you would say Tanıştığımıza memnun oldum. Okay? I’m pleased to meet you. But literally, tanıştığımıza means that we met. I’m pleased that we met. How this goes? Tanışmak. Okay? This is to meet. And when you add tanıştığımıza, this is the suffix. A little bit complicated for now. But this makes the sentence that we met. So, memnun oldum. I am pleased that we met. Okay? So, you know the formal structure as well.