LESSON 2: The sentence structure ın Turkısh. Conversatıon: How are you?

      GRAMMATICAL NOTES
Let's start by studying the sentence  structure in Turkish.
In a sentence  the subject whether a noun or a pronoun generally comes at the beginning and the verb at the end.

Turkish has a SOV structure which means Subject, Object, Verb.
In daily conversation the personal pronoun in the nominative case is seldom used since the personal suffixes are already added to the verb.
However when the pronoun is used in the nominative case it has the function of emphasis.

There are a couple of exceptions to the classic SOV structure.They occur in the following cases:

- Writing a poetry in which a verb cound be placed at the beginning of the sentence;
example:  Akıyor (verb) saf (adjective)  sullar (subject) - Fresh water flows

- Using the imperative form for a simple request or order.In this case the verb can be placed to the end of the sentence with a function of emphasis.

Example:  Oku ve bana anlat - read and tell me.

Now listen to this passage and start familiarizying with Turkish sounds.

ALİ: MERHABA,NASILSINIZ?.

MEHMET: İYİYİM, TESEKKÜR EDERİM. SİZ NASILSINIZ?

ALİ: BEN DE  İYİYİM. BUGÜN HAVA NASIL?

MEHMET: BUGÜN HAVA ÇOK GÜZEL, GÜNEŞLİ..

ALİ:OKUL NASIL?.

MEHMET: OKUL ÇOK BÜYÜK VE TEMİZ.

ALİ: ÖĞRETMEN ŞİŞMAN Mİ?

MEHMET: HAYIR, ÖĞRETMEN ŞİŞMAN DEĞİL,ZAYIF.

VOCABULARY  - SÖZLÜK

MERHABA: Hello, Hi

HAVA: Weather

GÜZEL: Fine, nice

GÜNEŞLİ: Sunny

OKUL: School

ÖĞRETMEN: Teacher

ŞİŞMAN: Fat, overweight

HAYIR: No

DEğil: Not (negative particle) - Non

ZAYIF: Thin