Thanks! Can't wait until the sun goes down and we can eat all this awesome stuff I picked up today!

I was wondering if you guys could help me out. I'm such a dork; I don't know why I didn't ask at the store! Anyway, I bought some frozen kofte at the store today. It appears to be cooked in the middle. Should I bake them in the oven or fry them in a pan? Or do you think it matters? (I'm kind of leaning in the doesn't matter direction...)

Hi there! Which means father-in-law for me: kayınbaba or kayınpeder? This would be my husband's father. And is baldız sister-in-law regardless if it's the husband or wife's sister? Thank you!!

teşekkülur!

Hi again! This is tough stuff. How do I conjugate atlamak in the negative? So it's ben atlayarum (please let me know if that's wrong) but what would I say for "I'm not jumping?" ben atlamuyorum???

Delimanyak...uh-oh! I think you're getting into territory that we haven't covered in class yet. You wrote "gitmek-gitmemek" and I don't know what you mean. Does gitmemek just mean to NOT go? Like altlamak would become atlamamak? (My Turkish husband, by the way, thinks I'm nuts for attempting to learn this language.)

Ohhhh, if my Turkish teacher realized I was such an idiot. OK, now if I wanted to make "gitmek" into a negative statment, would it then be "gitmiyorum"? çok teşekkulur!!!!

So I also need to add an "i"? So something like gelmek will conjugate to "geliyorum"?

Merhaba! I have a simple question about beloved vowel harmony. With the word "gitmek", when I conjugate will it be ben gityorum or ben gidyorum? Teşekkuler!

I'm just curious about this. My husband and I have been sending lots of packages over to my sister-in-law for her baby due in November. She goes online and looks at all the products from the different stores we send the gifts from...and finds a hundred more things she wants us to mail to her! It's very funny.

If you live in Turkey, are there things you wish you could get over there?

Hi everyone! More as a joke, I'd like to greet my husband with "bayraminiz kutlu olsun." How do you pronounce bayraminiz? Thanks!

Oh my gawwwwd...that was awful. Awful in that it made me cry because it was so sad!

Actually, my Turkish husband has never touched a cigarette! I don't know if that's the norm or not. He's very athletic and that's more what I equate with the Turks I know.

I read your post out of morbid curiosity because I couldn't possibly translate that much Turkish. But if someone has hurt you this much, why not tell them from your heart...which would mean in your own language? Good luck!

Thanks to you both! It cracks my husband up when I do these "translations."

Good morning! My husband cc'ed me on this email to his sister. I think it basically says that I'll be sending out a package to her tomorrow and that he hopes that everything is going well with her. Am I right and did I miss anything? Thanks a million!


"Kusura bakma, bugun daha yeni alabildik battaniyeyi. Yarin Shannon'un bir toplantisi var.
Ama sanirim Sali veya Carsamba gibi paketi postaya veririz. Umarim senin islerin de yolunda
gidiyordur."

So is it all lullabies? I guess I need to keep looking. I'm checking on the Tulumba site.

After reading the stories on here (thank you!) I've decided I'd like to buy a children's book with many easy stories. I enjoy learning that way and I think even though my Turkish husband thinks it's a bit silly, he also enjoys helping. Anyway, one possibility is "Türk Ninnilerinden Seçmeler." The book is described as:

Ninniler en az iki-üç aylıktan üç-dört yaşına kadar annenin çocuğuna, onu kucağında, ayağında veya beşikte sallayarak daha çabuk ve kolay uyutmak yahut ağlamasını susturmak için özel bir beste mani türünde bir dörtlükten meydana gelen bir çeşit türkülerdir.

Does it sound like what I'm looking for?

Thanks!

Thank you so much! If you don't mind, I'm going to use your translation and pretend I slaved away at it all afternoon. :o)

You may wish to try FedEx like the last poster wrote. My fiance told me that Turkish post isn't very reliable. If it looks like a gift or a card with money, it very easily could get stolen. Unfortunately, FedEx to Turkey isn't cheap!

Can anyone help me? My fiance cc'ed me on an email he sent to his sister. Most of it is getting her address. The rest? I don't know... This is a game he sometimes likes to play except he doesn't know I'm going to ask for help! Here's the short email:

Nasilsin? Umarim hersey yolundadir. Sana yeni is adresini soracktim. Bana su anki
is adresini gonderirmisin? Ayrica bir de senden bir ricam olacak: ODTU''ye ve BILKENT'e
gidip benim adima "transcript" almani rice edecegim. Ama hemen gitme daha, ben
sana detaylari yazacagim.

I don't need a word-by-word translation. Just the general idea. Teşekkür ederim!!!