Two cousins plan a summer visit to their grandfather’s village home in Türkiye. Use their original dialogue to discuss your stay, the heat, lunch and a visit to the neighbours.
The idea
With kalmak (to stay), distinguish place from duration. Nerede kalacaksın? asks where: köyde or dedemin evinde. Ne kadar kalacaksın? asks how long: iki hafta. Put them together in Köyde iki hafta kalacağım. The future forms here express plans: kalacağım is “I will stay” and uğrayacağız is “we will drop in”.
Read the text
Ece: Bu yaz nerede kalacaksın? Deniz: Dedemin evinde kalacağım.
Ece: Ne kadar kalacaksın? Deniz: Köyde iki hafta kalacağım.
Ece: Yarın ne yapacağız? Deniz: Yarın komşulara uğrayacağız.
Ece: Bugün hava çok sıcak. Deniz: Akşam bahçede çay içeceğiz.
Ece: Öğle yemeğinde ne var? Deniz: Öğle yemeğinde taze fasulye var.
Examples
- Bu yaz köyde kalacağım.I'll stay in the village this summer.
- Köyde iki hafta kalacağım.I'll stay in the village for two weeks.
- Yarın komşulara uğrayacağız.Tomorrow we'll drop in on the neighbours.
- Bu yaz nerede kalacaksın?Where will you stay this summer?
- Dedemin evinde kalacağım.I'll stay at my grandfather's house.
- Ne kadar kalacaksın?How long will you stay?
- Yarın ne yapacağız?What will we do tomorrow?
- Öğle yemeğinde ne var?What's for lunch?
- Öğle yemeğinde taze fasulye var.There are green beans for lunch.
- Bugün hava çok sıcak.It's very hot today.
- Akşam bahçede çay içeceğiz.We'll drink tea in the garden this evening.
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Watch out
For a two-week stay, say iki hafta kalacağım, not iki haftada kalacağım. İki haftada gives a time frame for completing something; it does not express the length of this stay. After iki, keep hafta singular.
Try it yourself
Complete the reply: I will stay in the village. Use köy.
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köyde
köyde: the question asks where you will stay, so the village is a location. Köye would mean movement towards the village.
Give the length of the stay: two weeks. Write the number as a word.
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iki hafta / iki hafta boyunca
iki hafta gives the whole length of the stay; iki hafta boyunca is also possible and makes “throughout those two weeks” explicit. Neither answer adds a locative ending to hafta.
Complete the plan: tomorrow we will drop in on the neighbours. Use komşular.
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komşulara
komşulara: the neighbours are the people you will drop in on, so uğramak takes the dative here. The last vowel of komşular gives the ending -a.
Use both words to say that there are green beans for lunch.
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taze fasulye
taze fasulye: put the describing word before the noun. This phrase names green beans, so it answers the question about lunch; var says they are available.
Practice round
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Complete the reply: I will stay in the village. Use köy.
Give the length of the stay: two weeks. Write the number as a word.
iki hafta / iki hafta boyunca
Complete the plan: tomorrow we will drop in on the neighbours. Use komşular.
Use both words to say that there are green beans for lunch.
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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Act out the cousins’ conversation, then change the place and duration. Add a lunch question and a plan for tomorrow. Take both roles, then continue with the lesson on what parents say.