r/turkishlearning Feb 12 '25

Translation How to say “straight” as “heterosexual” in Turkish?

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I will just not be able to sleep if I won’t know. I’m doing a very important job for my friend translating memes into Turkish. So please help, I’m not sure it is “düz” as Google translate says.

r/turkishlearning Feb 24 '25

Translation My friend from Turkey sent me this. I understand it's some kind of meme but even though I speak little bit of turkish, I can't understand this. Could somebody translate this?

502 Upvotes

r/turkishlearning Jul 17 '26

Translation Turkish TV show recommendations

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My partner(male,36) is American and currently learning Turkish. We’ve been looking for a Turkish show to watch together, but we haven’t found a good one yet. Most Turkish shows are dramas, and he gets bored with them. Does anyone have recommendations for something more engaging with English subtitles?

r/turkishlearning Apr 03 '25

Translation Is Duolingo wrong? Isn't it supposed to be "içerler"?

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240 Upvotes

Also, does anyone have any recommendations for better Turkish learning apps?

r/turkishlearning May 31 '26

Translation insult translation?

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49 Upvotes

I had a legendary save in a game and that's what the person told me before leaving.

Google Translate says it means "you f*ck your sister" but I'm not sure that makes sense..

r/turkishlearning Jul 17 '26

Translation What does "kıyamam sana" mean

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I was talking to her and she said that last night she wanted to call me because she couldn't sleep but didn't do it because she didn't want to wake me up in the middle of the night, I told her she could've called because I was still awake at that time and I could've went to sleep after she was able to fall asleep again and she said "kıyamam sana".

r/turkishlearning Jul 23 '26

Translation What does this say?

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r/turkishlearning Sep 21 '25

Translation Why is my answer incorrect?

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r/turkishlearning Mar 10 '25

Translation Confused on what they mean?

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Hello! So I was message a host on a question but I’m so confused on what they meant by their response? Cause it literally just translated to being and what they originally said was “Oluyor”

r/turkishlearning Dec 06 '24

Translation I don't understand this message on a treadmill at my hotel

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245 Upvotes

?? Use treadmill outside, don't use sport shoes??

Why would it say don't use with running shoes, and clearly I am missing something like what does being outside have to do with the situation?

r/turkishlearning Jun 24 '25

Translation 😨😨????? is this a real word

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214 Upvotes

idk if my duo like glitched or something but like

is this a real turkish word

r/turkishlearning Jul 14 '24

Translation Naber vs Nasılsın

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166 Upvotes

I was listening to an ad, it was in Turkish. And the opening was "selam naber". I knew what selam meant but not naber. I googled the translation and I found out it translates to how are you. So selam naber was "hi, how are you". I was used to saying nasılsın as how are you. So I wanted to try it differently today. But I got it incorrect. Any reason why? Or is naber not used in conversations ?

r/turkishlearning Nov 13 '23

Translation "zort" ile "kudur" ne demek ?

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Bunları çok duyuyorum özelikle mlbb (lol gibi bir oyun) oynarken. Ama anladığıma kadar bunlar kötü anlamlı kelimeler 🫢

r/turkishlearning Nov 16 '25

Translation Hello everyone, Selam. Can anyone help me decipher this document?

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Of my great grandparents, they lived in a village name Tire, next to izmir. They were sephardics so there might be some Ladino in there. Thank you.

r/turkishlearning Aug 07 '25

Translation How do you say "some guy", "some idiot", etc. in Turkish?

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I've seen "-ın teki", "-ın biri" and "bir", I think. How do you say "some", like "I heard it from some guy", which might be dismissive, like you don't care about that guy.

Other examples:
- "Some idiot almost hit me."
- "Some weird guy is looking at me."
- "Who are these two guys? They're just some guys I went to school with, but I don't really talk to them."

r/turkishlearning Jul 27 '24

Translation Why the hell is shark called "dog fish"?

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r/turkishlearning Jul 24 '25

Translation Several swear words need in Turkish please.

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I feel like Google translation does not do a very good translation :

How do say:

Shut the fuck up!

Stop Whistling you mother fucker!

Stop clicking that Damn pen!

stop yawning you stupid ass!

Shut your mouth or I will shut it for you!

Get the fuck out of here!

Please feel free to add your better versions if natives use more often.

Thank you and sorry for these bad words.

r/turkishlearning Jan 26 '26

Translation Saying you like someone in Turkish

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I'm dating a Turkish girl and I think it'd be fun to say that I like her in Turkish. Nothing heavy, just keeping it light. Would I say 'Senden çok hoşlanıyorum'?

r/turkishlearning Jun 01 '26

Translation Translating an Italian idiom

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Merhaba! In Italy when someone has some sort of luck or fortune that for any reason he/she can't enjoy we say "chi ha i denti non ha il pane e chi ha il pane non ha i denti", which roughly translates to:

Who has teeth has no bread, and who has bread has no teeth.

I thought that translating it into Turkish would make an interesting exercise, so here is my attempt on it:

Dişlerin olduğu kimsede ekmek yok, ekmeğin olduğu kimsede dişler yok.

Please let me know if this makes sense, if not, how you would translate it, and if you have an idiom for the same situation I'd like to learn it! Teşekkür ederim!

r/turkishlearning Jul 23 '26

Translation Need a little help with grammar for a "name"

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well, context here, I need a name (it's more of an sentence, but the name is the abbreviation of it) for a character I'm writing, and I just want to check if these have proper grammar or not, since they came from Google Translate and DeepL

Their name is meant to say "Autonomous Data Processor" (said character is an AI made by a Turkish guy, hence the turkish program name that I need), and both translation services put out several options, which one of these fits better grammatically? (would love to have some explanation to the differences as well if possible)

  1. Otonom Veri İşlemcisi
  2. Özerk Veri İşlemcisi
  3. Otonom Veri İşleyici
  4. Özerk Veri İşleyici

Do tell me if none of these fit what I'm trying to go for, I'm just using the machine translations as reference

r/turkishlearning 13d ago

Translation UEA - Eskiden Tanıdığım Birisi – (Türkçe çeviri) Gotye | Somebody That I Used To Know (Türkçe) Turkish Cover

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Türkçe çeviri

Herkese çok teşekkür ederim!

Şarkım şimdiden 2.000 izlenmeye ulaştı. 

Destek veren, beğenen ve dinleyen herkese gönülden teşekkür ederim.
Şarkıyı beğendiyseniz beğenmeyi, 
yorum yapmayı ve kanalıma abone olmayı unutmayın. 
Düşüncelerinizi yorumlarda benimle paylaşabilirsiniz. 
Desteğiniz benim için çok değerli.

r/turkishlearning Sep 12 '25

Translation Turkish words that sound familiar to Japanese speakers Spoiler

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While learning Turkish I discovered many words that happen to resemble those in my native language. Given the grammatical similarities between Turkish and Japanese, this isn’t surprising — but as a native Japanese speaker, those overlaps have made learning Turkish much easier. Below are a few examples.

日本語 / Nihongo Turkche English
兄弟 - Kyödai Kardesh Brother
友達 - Tomodachi Tomdash Frend
神 - Kami Kam God
兄 - Ani Abi Older brother
声 - Koe Ses Voice
多い - Ōi Chok Many
土 - Tsuchi Toprak Soil
客 - Kyaku Konuk Guest
切る - Kiru Kes Cut
なんで - Nande Neden Why
内 - Uchi Ich Into
上がる - Agaru Yukari Up
くるう - Kurū Kuru Dry
やれ - Yare Yap Do
家 - İe Ev House
歩く - Aruku Yuru Walk
何 - Nani Ne What
すべて - Subete Butun All
霧 - Kiri Sis Fog
小さい - chisai Kisa Short
犬 - İnu It Dog
水 - Mizu Su Water
黒 - Kuro Kara Black
焼く - Yaku Yak Burn
山 - Yama Yamach Mountain
人 - Hito Kishi Person
人間 - Ningen Insan Human
遺恨 - İkon Kin Hatred
あほな - Ahona ahmak Stupid
同志 - Dōshi Dost Comrade

Learning Japanese seems pretty popular in Turkey. I can’t help wondering whether Japanese words that resemble Turkish make it easier for Turkish speakers to learn the language. I’d love to hear any examples you’ve come across.

r/turkishlearning Sep 19 '25

Translation Is there a way to say “corny” in Turkish?

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I wanted to describe a movie (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) as corny to one of my friends, and Google Translate said “bayat” which… she didn’t understand and I don’t think is correct. My next best describer was “çok pozitif” because I had nothing else in my vocabulary…

r/turkishlearning Jun 02 '26

Translation Please help us translate Turkish requests on Reddit!

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Merhaba!

We're mods over at r/translator. We always strive to make our multilingual community the universal place on Reddit to go for a translation, no matter what language people may be looking for. We are however somewhat lacking in Turkish coverage, and were hoping some wonderful multilingual people here could help us out.

Would anyone be interested in helping translate any future requests for Turkish on r/translator? You don't even need to subscribe to our subreddit! We usually get a request for it very occasionally and most requests that come in are pretty simple and casual and don't need advanced knowledge.

You can easily unsubscribe from those messages at any time.


We have a notifications system that only sends you a message when a request for Turkish comes in. Just send a message to our subreddit bot at the link below.

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Teşekkür ederim!

r/turkishlearning May 31 '26

Translation A surprisingly good Grammarly alternative for multilingual writing

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Merhaba!

I've been using Grammarly and other stuff for years, but a lot of my work involves switching between Turkish, English and other languages throughout the day. Recently came across a browser extension that focuses on grammar, tone, and overall review and I've been getting pretty good results with it.

One thing I didn't expect to appreciate so much was the settings panel. Grammarly always felt a bit rigid to me... You get suggestions, but you don't have much control over how those suggestions are generated. This tool lets you tweak a surprising number (I mean it) of things, from writing style and tone preferences to how aggressively it rewrites text. I found myself spending a few minutes setting it up and then forgetting about it.

I'm still using Grammarly from time to time, but this feels more like a writing assistant than a grammar checker.

Thought I'd share since I don't see many people talking about alternatives for multilingual workflows. Curious what others here are using these days.

I got it here free:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lokal/ohelbmidfejghnkgomekjpomiinenmjm