Lesson 3 of 12

 
 
 
burada: here

kalkmak: to get up

oğul: son

çoktan: a while ago

nereden: from where

hanım: lady, Mrs., Ms. (polite form of address to a woman)

bey: mister, Mr. (polite form of address to a man)

borç: debt

götürmek: to take

ablamlar: my elder sister and her friends

uyumak: to sleep

güle güle: good-bye (said by the person who stays behind)

demek: to say

nasıl: how

canımı sıktı: caused me to worry

şimdi: now

doğru: right, straight, true

söylemek: to say, to tell

aslında: in fact

Anadolu: Anatolia

kaynamak: to boil, to well up [here

başına birşey gelmek: to have something happen to somebody

aklına getirmek: to conjure up, to think about

öyle: like that

kötü: bad

inşallah: God willing, I hope so!

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