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Turkish	English	Examples, supplements, and explanations
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cadde (10k bytes)	street, avenue	Bizim ev Mustafa Kemal caddesi üzerinde bulunuyor. Our house is on Mustafa Kemal Avenue. [...is found on Mustafa Kemal Avenue.] (25k bytes)
cam (Only on CD)	glass	Yerde cam parçaları var. Dikkat et! There are pieces of glass on the floor. Be careful! (Only on CD)
cami (Only on CD)	mosque	İstanbul'daki Sultan Ahmet camisini çok beğenmiş. It's said that the Sultan Ahmet Mosque in Istanbul is much admired. (Only on CD)
can (Only on CD)	soul, spirit, life	Beyefendinin canı çok kıymetliymiş. The soul of a gentleman is very valuable. (Only on CD) canım, my dear [used with close friends, children -- loved ones, in general.] (Only on CD) O benim canım yavrum. He's my dear darling. (Only on CD) canlı, alive (Only on CD) Bu kuş hala canlı yahu! Look here, this bird is still alive! (Only on CD)
cazibe (Only on CD)	attraction, charm	Güzelliğin cazibesine kapılmamak mümkün değil! It's not possible to not be captivated by the attraction of beauty. (Only on CD)
-ceğiz -cağız -cik (ciğe) -çik (çiğe) -cık (cığa) -çık (çığa)	A noun suffix meaning: dear little, dear old, poor old...	kadıncağız, poor old woman Mehmetçik, dear little Mehmet (the affectionate term used by the public when referring to the ordinary Turkish soldier) (Only on CD) "Kıyma kediciğe, amca," demiş. Don't kill the dear little cat, uncle," he said. (Only on CD)
cehennem (Only on CD)	hell	Cehenneme kadar yolun var! She can go to hell for all I care! (Only on CD)
-cek-/-ceğ- [-cak-/cağ-]	A verbal suffix that denotes a 'future' tense, e.g., Future Continuous Tense -- Geliyor olacağım; I shall be coming	Access complete 'Future Tense' examples from the Gelmek, to come Conjugations Index-page.
cennet (Only on CD)	heaven	Bu dünyada cennetteymişim gibi mutlu ve huzurlu yaşamak istiyorum. I want to live happily and tranquilly like I was in heaven on earth. (Only on CD)
cep (Only on CD)	pocket	Cebinde beş kuruş parası yok adamcağızın. He's a poor man who hasn't a penny to his name! [...hasn't five kuruş money in his pocket!] (Only on CD) Used in numerous Turkish idioms, phrases, and compound word constructions, such as: cep telefon, mobile phone cebi delik, penniless, broke cebi dolu, rich, loaded Cebi delik kişilerle işi olmazmış. It's impossible to work with pennniless people. (Only on CD)
cereyan	(electrical) current or air movement
cesur	brave	O bir aslan -- çok cesur. He's a lion -- he's very brave.
cevap	answer; solution	cevap vermek, to answer
ceza	punishment, penalty	cezaevi, prison
-cı, -ci, -cu, -cü (and -çı, -çi, -çu, -çü)	When these suffixes are attached to nouns, the newly formed words become new nouns that usually (though not always) designate a person's profession, his/her [place of] business, occupation, personal pursuit, or pastime activity. Note: Occasionally, these suffixes are also added to adjectives or adverbs -- to produce new nouns with 'occupational' meaning. For example: eski old eskici junkman, rag-and-bone-man Exception arising from ordinal numbers (birinci, ikinci, üçüncü, etc...): Although altın means gold, altıncı does not mean goldsmith. It means sixth. (The meaning of goldsmith is altın kuyumcusu.)	araştırma research araştırmacı a researcher benzin gas/petrol benzinci a gas/petrol-station attendant, a gas/petrol filling station futbol a football/soccer ball, the game of football/soccer futbolcu a football player ülkü an ideal ülkücü an idealist balık fish balıkçı a fisherman, a fishmonger bilet a ticket biletçi a ticket seller hukuk [the] law, jurisprudence hukukçu a jurist çöp trash, garbage çöpçü a garbageman, dustman, streetsweeper
ciddi	serious	Ciddi olamazsın! You're not serious, are you?!
cihaz	an apparatus, a piece of machinery/equipment
cilt	[human or animal] skin or the cover of a book, or a volume of a book
cinayet	murder
cinsel	sexual
civar	the vicinity	civarında, around here/there, in the vicinity
cumhurbaşkanı	president
cümle	a sentence	cümle alem, the whole world, the whole family, everybody