Learn Turkish Language Online -- Turkish Learning Logo
[Learn Turkish Home Page] [Beginners]
[Table of Contents] [Questions or Comments]
[Habibullah Speaks!]
[Latest website updates]
[Search the whole website]
[Online Turkish word dictionary]
Learn Turkish language, 
Online color bar

Identify this
Famous 
Turks Series...Tülin Şahin -- Model, known as the 'Yerli' Cindy 
Crawford
Famous Turk...

To Jim and Peri's
Commercial-free CD
for Turkish Learning --
now with
triple ebook bonus!

"The 700 Club"
of
Essential Turkish Language

Z

Also Related Pages:
  • Translating Turkish, the basics
  • Conjunction Celebration
  • Turkish Verbs
  • Essential Idioms, Index
  • Essential Suffixes, Index
  • Sentence Structure, Standard
  • Turkish Pronunciation
  • Turkish Accenting
  • Numbers in Turkish
  • NewsReaders' Dictionary, Index
  • Türkçe -- İngilizce Sözlük
    (Turkish -- English Dictionary)
    CD owners enjoy
    complete and direct linking
    throughout all the '700 Club' Pages.
    Site visitors may navigate using the
    '700 Club' Index Page
    [A] [B] [C] [Ç] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [İ] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [Ö] [P] [R] [S] [Ş]
    [T] [U] [Ü] [V] [Y] [Z]

    [Index]
    Turkish
    English
    Examples, supplements, and explanations
    Z (~17 entries)  
    zahmet

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    trouble, difficulty, inconveniencezahmet etmek, to take pains, to bother

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)


    Zahmet etmeyin! Don't go to any trouble!

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)


    Bir zahmet... Please...

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)


    zahmete değmek, to be worthwhile

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    Zahmete değmez. It's not worth it.

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    zam

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    a (price) increase 
    zaman

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    1. lit. time
    2. used in expressing the idea of when...
    1. Zaman sana uymazsa sen zamana uy. (Turkish Proverb)
      If the time doesn't suit you, you must suit the time.

      Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
      (MP3 format)

    2. Geldiğim zaman sen yoktun. When I came you weren't there.

      Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
      (MP3 format)

      Also see -de and -da.


    • zaman zaman, from time to time

      Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
      (MP3 format)

    • zamanında, at the proper time

      Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
      (MP3 format)


    Compare zaman with
    defa, kez, kere, and tane.
    zan

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    • supposition, guess
    • doubt, suspicion
    • zannetmek, to think, to suppose

      Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
      (MP3 format)

    • zanlı, an accused person, a suspect

      Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
      (MP3 format)

      ABD'deki 11 Eylül saldırılarının baş zanlısı Usame bin Ladin'in eski arkadaşı, El Kaide liderinin muhtemelen öldüğünü söyledi. An old friend of Osama bin Ladin (the prime suspect in the 11th of September attacks in the USA) said of the al Qaida leader that he is probably dead.
      Gözcu Gazetesi, 18 Jan 2002

      Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
      (MP3 format)

    zarar

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    damage, harm, injury 
    zavallı

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    poor, pitiful, powerless;
    poor person
    Zavallı! Oh that poor man! Poor woman! Poor thing!

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    zayıf

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    weak, feeble, also thin 
    zeki

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    intelligent, clever 
    zemin

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    groundzemin kat, ground floor

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    zengin

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    rich 
    zevk

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    pleasure 
    zeytin

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    olivezeytinyağı, olive oil

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    zıplamak

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    to jump 
    zıt

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    contrary, opposite, antithesis, [things] opposed to each otherMary, Marietta'nın zıddı. Mary is the opposite of Marietta.

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    zincir

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    [a] chain 
    ziraat

    Learn Turkish Language -- sounds
    (MP3 format)

    agriculture 
    ziyaret

    [Sounds]

    visit, trip 
    zor

    [Sounds]

    difficult, hard
    • Bu problem zor. This is a difficult problem.

      [Sounds]

    • zorla, by force

      [Sounds]

    • zorunda-, have to [something]

      [Sounds]

      Example: Resimlerimizi göstermek zorundayız. We have to show our pictures.

      [Sounds]

    • zorunda kal-, had to [something]

      [Sounds]

      Example:
      Resimlerimizi göstermek zorunda kaldık. We had to show our pictures.

      [Sounds]


    Also Related Pages:
  • Translating Turkish, the basics
  • Conjunction Celebration
  • Turkish Verbs
  • Essential Idioms, Index
  • Essential Suffixes, Index
  • Sentence Structure, Standard
  • Turkish Pronunciation
  • Turkish Accenting
  • Numbers in Turkish
  • NewsReaders' Dictionary, Index
  • Learn Turkish language

    [Learn Turkish Home Page] [Learning Practical Turkish Table of Contents] [Turkish Learning Message Center]Please email us and tell us how we can improve the Learning Practical Turkish Web site.

    © Learn Turkish of the People! -- The 700 Club Of Essential Turkish Language