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