A1StoryEveryday life1 min

Durakta

The bus does not come, an old man knows why, and Selin takes a taxi.

A morning at the bus stop. Watch the times with -de/-da, English “at”: yedi buçukta “at half past seven”. And the way people address each other: the old man calls Selin kızım, “my daughter”, and she calls him amca, “uncle” — that is how strangers speak to each other kindly in Turkish.

Selin her sabah otobüsle işe gidiyor. Durak evin yakınında.

Otobüs her gün saat yedi buçukta geliyor. Ama bugün otobüs yok. Saat sekiz, hâlâ yok.

Durakta yaşlı bir adam da bekliyor. Adam soruyor: “Kızım, saat kaç?” Selin: “Sekiz, amca.”

Adam söylüyor: “Bugün otobüs yok. Yol kapalı.” Selin bunu bilmiyor.

Selin taksiye biniyor. Taksi pahalı ama hızlı. Sekiz buçukta Selin işte.

Words: 59
Sentences: 14
Words per sentence: 4.2
in the vocabulary: 100 %
measured level: A1
Reading time: 1 min

The words from A1 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 27 of the 40 words in this text are at A1 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

adam
man
A1
amca
uncle (father’s brother)
A1
beklemek
to wait for, to expect
A1
bilmek
to know; to be able to
A1
binmek
to get on, to take (a vehicle)
A1
bugün
today
A1
buçuk
half (after a number)
A1
durak
stop (bus, tram)
A1
ev
house, flat, home
A1
gelmek
to come
A1
gitmek
to go
A1
gün
day
A1
hızlı
fast, quick
A1
iş
work, job; matter
A1
kapalı
closed, shut
A1
kız
girl; daughter
A1
otobüs
bus
A1
pahalı
expensive
A1
saat
clock, hour, time
A1
sabah
morning; in the morning
A1
sekiz
eight
A1
sormak
to ask
A1
söylemek
to say, to tell
A1
taksi
taxi
A1
yaşlı
old (people)
A1
yedi
seven
A1
yol
way, road
A1

The word lists for this text

The words in this text appear in 7 lists on this site; the number after each says how many come from that list. Having read the text, you have just needed these very words — and can practise exactly them.

Verb forms 7 Numbers and time 7 The most frequent adjectives 4 Town and finding the way 4 Family and people 3 Words for every day 1 Home and household 1

The verbs on this page, in every form: gelmek · gitmek · beklemek · bilmek · sormak · binmek

Comprehension questions

3 questions on the text. With each answer the sentence it comes from appears — a question whose answer you cannot find in the text tests nothing.

1. Durak nerede?

2. Otobüs neden gelmiyor?

3. Selin işe nasıl gidiyor?