Turkish

The Turkish alphabet is not hard to learn. It looks like the English alphabet, but there are some differences:


<ul>
 <li>The Turkish alphabet does not contain the letters q, w or x</li>
 <li>It also has some letters the English alphabet doesn't have: ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş and ü</li>
</ul>

The complete Turkish alphabet contains 29 characters which you can see below.

<table class="ui small table">
 <thead>
 <tr>
 <td>a</td>
 <td>b</td>
 <td>c</td>
 <td>ç</td>
 <td>d</td>
 <td>e</td>
 <td>f</td>
 <td>g</td>
 <td>ğ</td>
 <td>h</td>
 <td>ı</td>
 <td>i</td>
 <td>j</td>
 <td>k</td>
 <td>l</td>
 <td>m</td>
 <td>n</td>
 <td>o</td>
 <td>ö</td>
 <td>p</td>
 <td>r</td>
 <td>s</td>
 <td>ş</td>
 <td>t</td>
 <td>u</td>
 <td>ü</td>
 <td>v</td>
 <td>y</td>
 <td>z</td>
 </tr>
 </thead>
</table>


 Since the special characters are difficult to type if you don't have a Turkish keyboard, you can type special characters by typing the normal character that looks like it followed by pressing the Tab key.


<table class="ui celled table">
 <tbody><tr>
 <td>Type this letter and then a [Tab]</td>
 <td>c</td>
 <td>g</td>
 <td>i</td>
 <td>I</td>
 <td>o</td>
 <td>s</td>
 <td>u</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td>and it will change to this</td>
 <td>ç</td>
 <td>ğ</td>
 <td>ı</td>
 <td>İ</td>
 <td>ö</td>
 <td>ş</td>
 <td>ü</td>
 </tr>
</tbody></table>


 In the image below you see that there are special characters displayed below the place where you enter your answer.
 You can also click on these characters if you forgot how to type them, and you can hover over them to see how to type them.


<img src="https://elonstorage.blob.core.windows.net/file/1018424.png" alt="Turkish special character keyboard" />

The Turkish alphabet

noun

adjective

determiner

verb

adverb

postposition

interjection

conjunction

pronoun

sentence

phrase

Unknown

NOUN - vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, consonant harmony

NOUN - no vowel harmony, no consonant harmony

VERB - intransitive, passive

VERB - intransitive, non-passive

VERB - transitive, non-causative

VERB - transitive, causative

VERB - ablative

VERB - dative

VERB - locative

VERB - accusative

VERB - intransitive, reciprocal

VERB - intransitive, reflexive

VERB - auxiliary

Word	çay
Meaning	tea
Part of speech	noun
Pronunciation
Course	Turkish
Lesson	The Turkish alphabet

Buy tea.	Çay alın.
Please drink a cup of tea.	Lütfen bir fincan çay içiniz.
a cup of tea	bir fincan çay
Drink tea.	Çay iç.
(the) hot tea	sıcak çay
There is no tea.	Çay yok.
There is coffee and tea.	Kahve ve çay var.
There is no coffee, but there is tea.	Kahve yok, ama çay var.
There is no coffee, but there is tea.	Kahve yok, fakat çay var.
Do you want coffee or tea?	Kahve ya da çay istiyor musun?
Do you want coffee or tea?	Kahve veya çay istiyor musun?
Do you want coffee or do you want tea?	Kahve mi yoksa çay mı istiyorsun?
Is there tea? - There is not.	Çay var mı? - Yok.
Put less sugar in my tea please.	Çayıma daha az şeker koyun lütfen.
Three teas with sugar please.	Üç tane şekerli çay lütfen.
teaspoon	çay kaşığı
[Apparently] There is no tea left at home.	Evde hiç çay kalmamış.
(I) will drink tea with my mother in the evening.	Akşamleyin annem ile çay içeceğiz. Note that in Turkish the plural is often used when you say you are doing something with someone else, where in English you would use the singular.

çay

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Usages of çay

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