Questions & Answers about Aman, telaş yapma; sakin ol.
Aman is an interjection. It does not have one single fixed English equivalent. In this sentence, it adds emotion such as concern, urgency, or an attempt to soothe someone.
Depending on tone, aman can feel like:
- oh
- come on
- hey
- for heaven’s sake
- please
So here it helps the speaker sound emotionally involved, not just mechanical.
No. Telaş is a noun. It refers to panic, haste, fuss, anxious rush, or a flustered state.
In the sentence, it is used with yapmak to form the expression telaş yapmak, which means something like:
- to panic
- to get flustered
- to make a fuss
- to rush around anxiously
This is very common in Turkish: a noun combines with yapmak or etmek to create a verbal expression.
Yapma here is the negative informal singular imperative of yapmak.
Breakdown:
- yap- = verb stem
- -ma = negative imperative ending for sen
So yapma means don’t do.
Because telaş yapmak is the full expression, telaş yapma literally looks like don’t do panic/fuss, but naturally it means don’t panic / don’t get flustered.