The three meals
Turkish names two of the three meals with a compound: öğle (noon) and akşam (evening) each take yemek (food) with the possessive -i.
| meal | literally |
|---|---|
| kahvaltı | breakfast — its own word |
| öğle yemeği | the noon's food |
| akşam yemeği | the evening's food |
At the table you will hear afiyet olsun — said before eating as enjoy your meal, and after as a reply to thanks for the food.
Time that is spent, and time that is missed
geçirmek is the transitive partner of geçmek: not to pass but to spend or to put something through. Hence vakit geçirmek, to spend time.
geç kalmak is to be late — literally to remain late. Note it is kalmak, not olmak.
At school
ders çalışmak is to study. Do not say ders yapmak: the fixed pairing is with çalışmak (to work). And an exam is something you enter in Turkish — sınava girmek, with the dative.
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