I can fill in a simple form, dictate and write down an address, find “withdraw money” on an ATM screen, name my documents, and ask about the rent.
Forms and addresses
Forms and addresses
Why: to fill in a form, give your address, read an ATM screen, and ask a landlord about an apartment.
form means a form to fill in, as in English. On the form, the first name comes first, then the last name: Adı — İvan, Soyadı — Smirnov. Many last names end in -oğlu (“son”), for example Eroğlu. Date of birth is doğum tarihi, signature is imza. All the fields are in the table.
A Turkish address goes from the neighborhood down, and the number comes after the street: mahalle (neighborhood), sokak (street), the building number (No), the floor (kat), the apartment (daire), and at the end the district and the city. The floor is an ordinal number: ikinci kat, written “2. kat”; the building and apartment numbers are plain numbers: numara on, daire altı.
Money: dolar, avro, lira. On an ATM the Para çekme button means “withdraw cash” (from para çekmek, “to withdraw money”). In a passport: vize, a visa.
Housing: kira is the rent, ev sahibi the landlord or landlady.
Common mistakes:
• NOT “Adı: Smirnov, Soyadı: İvan” → Adı: İvan, Soyadı: Smirnov
• NOT “beşinci Mayıs” → beş Mayıs
• NOT “kat ikinci” → ikinci kat
Form fields
Ivan Smirnov's form: field, meaning, and example.
| Form field | In English | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Adı | first name | İvan |
| Soyadı | last name | Smirnov |
| Doğum tarihi | date of birth | 07.03.2002 |
| Doğum yeri | place of birth | Kazan |
| Uyruk | citizenship | Rus |
| Cinsiyet | sex | Erkek |
| Adres | address | Okul Sokağı, No: 4 |
| İmza | signature | (handwritten signature) |
The order of an address on a form
This is how an address is written on an envelope and on a form: from top to bottom.
| Part of the address | In Turkish | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Neighborhood | mahalle | Yeni Mahalle |
| Street | sokak | Okul Sokağı |
| Building number | No | No: 4 |
| Floor | kat | Kat: 1 |
| Apartment | daire | Daire: 3 |
| District and city | ilçe / şehir | Beşiktaş / İstanbul |
Lesson notes
Forms and addresses
Why: to fill in a form, give your address, read an ATM screen, and ask a landlord about an apartment.
form means a form to fill in, as in English. On the form, the first name comes first, then the last name: Adı — İvan, Soyadı — Smirnov. Many last names end in -oğlu (“son”), for example Eroğlu. Date of birth is doğum tarihi, signature is imza. All the fields are in the table.
A Turkish address goes from the neighborhood down, and the number comes after the street: mahalle (neighborhood), sokak (street), the building number (No), the floor (kat), the apartment (daire), and at the end the district and the city. The floor is an ordinal number: ikinci kat, written “2. kat”; the building and apartment numbers are plain numbers: numara on, daire altı.
Money: dolar, avro, lira. On an ATM the Para çekme button means “withdraw cash” (from para çekmek, “to withdraw money”). In a passport: vize, a visa.
Housing: kira is the rent, ev sahibi the landlord or landlady.
Common mistakes:
• NOT “Adı: Smirnov, Soyadı: İvan” → Adı: İvan, Soyadı: Smirnov
• NOT “beşinci Mayıs” → beş Mayıs
• NOT “kat ikinci” → ikinci kat