Two friends miss a bus: one blames the other, who admits the mistake and wishes they had left early. Read the first three lines as an exchange, then compare other replies. All dialogue here is original.
The idea
Senin yüzünden presents you as the cause of an unwanted result and can sound accusatory. For “because of me”, use benim yüzümden. Bu benim hatam accepts responsibility; Bu senin suçun değil removes blame. Here, suç means fault. Keşke erken çıksaydık looks back at a different past: “I wish we had left early.” Keşke sana bağırmasaydım regrets an action that did happen: “I wish I hadn’t shouted at you.” Learn these as conversational phrases here; the full wish and conditional patterns belong to the grammar lessons.
Examples
- Senin yüzünden otobüsü kaçırdık.We missed the bus because of you.
- Bu benim hatam.This is my fault.
- Keşke erken çıksaydık.I wish we had left early.
- Keşke sana bağırmasaydım.I wish I hadn’t shouted at you.
- Bu senin suçun değil.This is not your fault.
- Benim yüzümden tartışmayın.Don’t argue because of me.
- Senin sayende otobüse yetiştik.Thanks to you, we caught the bus.
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Watch out
Do not use senin yüzünden as a warm thank-you. For a helpful result, senin sayende means “thanks to you”. In a complaint, sayende can be sarcastic; the outcome and tone matter. Also, “my fault” is benim hatam, not benim hata.
Try it yourself
Blame the other person for missing the bus: Senin ___ otobüsü kaçırdık. Choose yüzünden / sayende.
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yüzünden
yüzünden: missing the bus is the unwanted result, and the speaker blames the listener. Sayende would need an ironic reading in this situation.
Accept responsibility using hata: “This is my fault.” Complete Bu ___. Write only the missing words.
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benim hatam / hatam
benim hatam / hatam: the speaker owns the mistake. The ending of hatam already means “my”, so benim may be omitted without shifting blame to someone else.
You missed the bus and wish you had left early: Keşke erken ___. Choose çıktık / çıksaydık.
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çıksaydık
çıksaydık: the wish imagines an early departure that did not happen. Çıktık would simply report “we left”, so it does not express the intended regret here.
You shouted at someone and regret doing so: Keşke sana ___. Choose bağırsaydım / bağırmasaydım.
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bağırmasaydım
bağırmasaydım: shouting really happened, but the desired past has no shouting. Bağırsaydım would instead wish that the speaker had shouted.
Practice round
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Blame the other person for missing the bus: Senin ___ otobüsü kaçırdık. Choose yüzünden / sayende.
Accept responsibility using hata: “This is my fault.” Complete Bu ___. Write only the missing words.
benim hatam / hatam
You missed the bus and wish you had left early: Keşke erken ___. Choose çıktık / çıksaydık.
You shouted at someone and regret doing so: Keşke sana ___. Choose bağırsaydım / bağırmasaydım.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Write a three-line exchange about missing a bus: blame, an admission, then a wish about the past. Replace the accusation with a sincere thank-you in a second version where you catch the bus.