A2NoteManners and customs1 min

Mutfakta bir not

A note for a visitor: where everything is, and what we are doing tonight.

A note between friends, with sen. Watch the place phrases built from genitive and possessive: yatağın üstünde “on the bed”, literally “at the bed’s top”, koridorun sonunda “at the end of the corridor”.

Hoş geldin Lena!

Biz işteyiz, akşam altıda evdeyiz. Buzdolabında peynir, yoğurt ve meyve var. Çay ve kahve mutfak dolabında.

Senin odan koridorun sonunda, sağda. Havlular yatağın üstünde.

Çamaşır makinesi banyoda; istersen kullanabilirsin. Anahtar kapının yanında, küçük masanın üstünde.

Akşam birlikte dışarıda yemek yiyelim. Sana güzel bir lokanta göstereceğim.

Bir sorun olursa beni ara. Kendi evin gibi rahat ol!

Selin

More sentences on this in “Language in use”: Polite Turkish

Words: 59
Sentences: 13
Words per sentence: 4.5
in the vocabulary: 100 %
measured level: A2
Reading time: 1 min

Grammar in this text

These forms appear in the text in real use. Switch on “Show grammar” above the text to highlight them.

yatağın üstünde · koridorun sonunda
Place phrases from genitive + possessive + locative: yatağın üstünde, koridorun sonunda — where English uses a preposition. On, under, next to: the place words →
yemek yiyelim
-elim “let’s”: yiyelim. The optative: “gideyim” and “gidelim” →
göstereceğim
The future: göstereceğim “I’ll show”. The future in “-ecek” →

The words from A2 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 8 of the 53 words in this text are at A2 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

dışarı
out, outside
A2
havlu
towel
A2
koridor
hall, corridor
A2
kullanmak
to use; to drive (a car)
A2
rahat
comfortable; relaxed
A2
saç kurutma makinesi
hairdryer
A2
sonunda
at last, finally; in the end
A2
çamaşır
laundry, washing
A2

The word lists for this text

The words in this text appear in 15 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.

Home and household 9 Verb forms 6 Food and drink 5 The most frequent adjectives 2 House and flat 2 The small words 2 Personal care 2 Where things are 2 Town and finding the way 2 Numbers and time 2 Words for every day 1 Qualities 1 Feelings 1 I, you, who, where 1 Time and frequency 1

The verbs on this page, in every form: gelmek · yemek · göstermek

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. Selin akşam saat kaçta evde?

2. Havlular nerede?

3. Akşam ne yapacaklar?