Lesson 9
Can you say it again in Turkish?
Turkish English
Lütfen tekrarla Repeat that, please(informa)
Lütfen tekrarlayanız Repeat that, please(formal)
Lütfen tekrarlar mısın? Can you repeat that, please?
Lütfen tekrarlar mısınız? Can you repeat that, please?(formal)
Tekrar söyler misin? Can you say that again?
Lütfen tekrar söyler misin? Can you say that again, please?
Tekrar söyleyebilir misiniz? Could you say that again, please?(formal)
Lütfen tekrar söyleyebilir misiniz? Could you say that again, please?(formal)
Lütfen daha yavaş tekrarlar mısınız? Can you repeat that slowly, please?
Daha yavaş lütfen More slowly please.
Vocabulary
Turkish English
tekrarlamak to repeat
söylemek to say
tekrar again
tekrarlamak to again
-ebilir, -abilir could
daha yavaş more slowly
Sample Sentences
Turkish English
Bir fincan kahve daha lütfen! One more cup of coffee, please!
Soruyu tekrarlar mısın lütfen? Can you repeat the question, please?
Ne söylüyor o? What is she/he saying?
Bu raftaki, lütfen This one on the shelf, please
Tekrar söyleyeceğim I'll say it again
Bana bir bardak rakı getirir misin Can you get me a glass of rakı?
Daha yavaş söyle lütfen! Say it slowly, please!
Grammar Tips
It is possible that there will be such times that the Turkish will be coming at you fast and you may not get all or any of it. When this happens, asking the speaker to say it again can make the
difference between understanding a very important piece of information and spending the rest of the
day trying to figure out what it was. The following phrase will not only give you a better sense
of the language, but will also help you tune your ear!
In Turkish, "Repeat that, please" is Lütfen tekrarlayınız(formal).
The first word we learned before: Lütfen means "please." After this comes tekrarlayınız,
meaning "repeat it."
If you want to make a question sentence you can add ''mısın'' at the end of the phrase
All together, that's Lütfen tekrarlar mısın?
If you want to address someone formally, just change the last part, mısın, to mısınız.
Then it becomes Lütfen tekrarlar mısınız?
If you want to sound a little less direct, you can ask "Can you repeat that, please?" In Turkish
this is Lütfen tekrarlayabilir misin?
It can be made even more formal by adding misiniz instead of misin: Lütfen tekrarlayabilir
misiniz?
You can also ask casually "Please say that again": Lütfen tekrar söyle.
The first word, lütfen, still means "please. Next we have tekrar, which means "again." After this
comes söyler, meaning "say."
If we replace misin with söyler misiniz, the sentence gets more formal. Lütfen tekrar söylermisiniz
To make it bit more formal - "Could you say that again?"—we can upgrade söyler to
söyleyebilir, which means "Could you say that again, please?" Altogether that would be: Lütfen tekrarsöyleyebilir misin?
Let's make it even more formal by replacing misin with misiniz: Lütfen tekrar söyleyebilir
misiniz?
At times, you may not understand the speaker even after a repeat. This is often due to how
fast the person is speaking. In these cases, you can say "Slower, please": Daha yavaş lütfen.
The first word, daha, means "more." The second word, yavaş, means "slow." When we put
daha and yavaş together, they mean "more slowly." Of course, the lütfen at the end of the
sentence means "please."
All together, it's Daha yavaş lütfen.
We can use the phrases we've seen so far together.
"Repeat that slowly, please?" is Daha yavaş tekrarlar mısınız? Mısınız makes this a more formal
question you can ask people you don't know
With friends you can say Daha yavaş tekrarlar mısın?
Both mean "can you repeat it slowly, please."
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