ı ok now illa ska question but i think only arabic speakers will get me so calling all arabic speakers (or anyone who can get what im throwing at Now In turkish when there is a negative question and we wanna answer we either say evet or hayır right??(or am i wrong?) anyway in english there is only yes and no, in turkish there is evet, yok and hayır right? and in arabic theres yes, na´em and bala, so does bala=hayır? the truthis i dont even completely get what bala does,

would it be for ex:You didnt go to the movies?

"bala", i did.

would that be right? and then would it=hayir in turkish?

like for ex:Sen okula gitmiyor musun?

hayır, ben okula gidiyor

am i even right in that?

and in English i cant answer a negative question with another negative right? THIS IS GETTING VERY CONFUSING!!

help please!!

looks like i cant get any language!!

 Actually you are confusing yourself and confusing me too

İn English,there is ....yes,and no

İn Turkish there is....Evet,hayır

İn Arabic there is.... Bala  which also means Na´an,and la

Yok doesnt mean no,it means does not exist

As var mean...exist

Like in saying do you have brother/sister ?

No,i dont have brother/sister

Yes,i have brother/sister

Kardeşin var mı ?

Hayır,kardeşim yok.

Evet,kardaşim var.

So here it can be translated as do you have...but its meaning is ´not exist´

No,my brother/sister do not exist

Ps:guys correct  the Turkish sentence if needed

doudi did you mean "bala" is an Egyptian word or do you mean the khaleeji (the gulf) word??? if it´s the khaleeji word then it´s "imbala", not bala.

imbala would mean yes . I think hayir is NO, or am I wrong?? cause I´m new to the turkish language, you are be better than me. 

would it be for ex:You didnt go to the movies?

"bala", i did.

your example is right for the use of imbala..

Canli 

i was wondering about mi, mu, are they used as the syrian one?

yani, when someone " you haven´t been to the movies, maa?

is it the same?? 

What is imbala ?

Bla is بلى

Formal Arabic,neither Egyptian nor Haliji..

imbala ?

ok sorry   

it is what you wrote about bala, i thought doudi wrote بلاء

 Yes,i heard it in syrian also,they are close to Türkiye ,maybe thats why.

mI is interrogative,is the Turkish yes/no question tool,like do,is,have,...ect depends on the tense

But over all,its the yes/no question..

To form a question your answer maybe yes or no

ANd it also follow the vowel harmony rules

  sorry doudi for not getting you, but that´s how we say it in the gulf...

بلى was not in my mind at all 

oooh now i get the mi thing, i was wondering about it

thanks

ooh i guess i was confusing myself again!! Why do i always make things so complicated? lol thx canli!

 "Yok" can mean "hayır" as well. At least it is used that way.

For example:

- Biraz daha kahve ister misin? (Do you want more coffee?)

Yok, sağol. (No, thanks)

- Bu filme gidelim mi? (Shall we go to this film?)

Yok, ben o filmi gördüm. No, I have seen that film.

you know i decided to ask this to my mom first and she thought the same thing!!! But she said dontask me about bala she also got confused! arabic is soooo hard and confusing!!!

Yok means no. In fact, in some other Turkish yok is the only word for no (I guess Azeri is an example)

Actually,thats not what we´ve learnt

Teachers even made GREAT stress that yok doesnt mean no,specially because here we used to think that

BALA means in Turkish "Bilakis" which comes from arabic bil-aks (on the contrary).

BALA/Bilakis Gives positive answer and exact expalaniton to the negative question.

- Have not you been in Ankara before? (Daha önce Ankarada bulunmadın mı?)

- BALA (I have been there) (Bilakis, orada bulundum)

-Am I not your GOD (Ben sizin rabbiniz değil miyim?)

-BALA (You are our GOD)  (Bilakis sen bizim rabbimizsin)

 İ didnt know that you have that usage in Turkish too

So is it common to use bilakis ?

wow!!tat is sooo cool to know!!!but ive never seen it used before ina ny example or anything

Bilakis = tam tersine

Both of them are used, maybe "bilakis" these days not so so much but you won´t sound weird if you use "bilakis".

i have another question about the word hayır

hows ıt pronounced?? lıke ayır or Hayır???

İ dont know why but ı feel lke ıt should be ayır lol

Hayır ıs just too thıck and hard to say ı dont know why

  Click on ´hayir´ and when it appears in the dictionary you can click on the little arrow to hear how it is pronounced.

Thx sonunda ı jst dıd ıt and turned out to be Hayır!!!! Wow thats a shock to meö but the hardly ronounces the H so ım not sure

it is same as  ﻫ  letter in arabic.    There are no ح  or خ  sounds in turkish.

thx gencturk but i already knew that, i just thought it sounded really like heavy with H but then the guy soent pronounce it that hard, i felt like he hardly said the H im not sure though , so when i pronounce Hayir, is it pronounved like the english word higher???

hay hay hay guys wait

there is something very baaaaaaaaaad

bala wich is in arabic بلى

means yes not no iam an arabic one and i alwayes know that

and    kala    wich mean in arabic كلا

means no      

so bala mean yes not no

thats what i live with

oh maaaaaaaaaaan!!! as if i needed more confusion!!! Smbdy plz help!~

doudi,if you are asking about hayır,then hayır means no/La

İf you are asking about Bala,then it means yes,and its the answer to a negative question

Meaning

Didnt you buy the bread?

Bala,i did

Here we use bala,i dont know anything like it in Turkish

They have evet,and hayır only,and yok has another usage

To answer this question,they use

Hayır,almadım

Or,

Evet,aldım

Yes, that is right. and the same for every "h" words in Turkish.