Halam kavun getirmiş olmalı; buzdolabı bugün çok dolu.

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Breakdown of Halam kavun getirmiş olmalı; buzdolabı bugün çok dolu.

• bugün: today
• çok: very
• benim: my

Questions & Answers about Halam kavun getirmiş olmalı; buzdolabı bugün çok dolu.

Why is it halam and not hala?

Hala means paternal aunt: your father’s sister.

Halam means my paternal aunt. The -m is the 1st person singular possessive suffix, so it literally means my aunt.

This is very common in Turkish with family words:

• annem = my mother
• babam = my father
• ablam = my older sister
• halam = my paternal aunt

Also, Turkish distinguishes between different kinds of aunts:

• hala = father’s sister
• teyze = mother’s sister

So halam is more specific than English my aunt.

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