Time in Turkish (time, date, days, seasons)

Do you want to learn how to ask the time in Turkish? Yes? You have come to right place! 

Here in this lesson, we will learn how to tell the time in the Turkish language. We will also learn the days of the week, the months and how to ask the date and the seasons in the Turkish language.

How to ask the time in Turkish?

There's more than one way to ask the time in Turkish.

What time is it? -specifying the time-

At what time? -something will take a place-

Both forms of asking the time follows vowel harmony rules.

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-What time is it?- in Turkish

Let´s start with the simple dialog sentences about time, the question and different answers.

On the hour

It is used to express the present time.

(Saat / hour) (Saat dört)

Quarter past (çeyrek)

Saat hours-i çeyrek geçiyor. (Note the vowel harmony rules for the suffix -i)

"Saat" / hour + "ı/i/u/ü" /  "çeyrek geçiyor"

Half past (Buçuk)

The vowel harmony rule does not apply for this.

"Saat"/ hour / "buçuk"

Quarter to (Çeyrek var)

Saat hours-i çeyrek var.   (Note the vowel harmony rules for the suffix -e)

"Saat" hour + "a/e" "çeyrek var"

From the exact hour to half past, you say the time as minutes past hour. From half past to the next hour, convention is to sat the time as minutes to hour.

• The word for past is ´geçiyor´.
• The word for to is ´var´.
• The word for half is ´buçuk´.
• The word for quarter is ´çeyrek´.

What time? in Turkish

At what time? (Saat kaçta?)

We use this to specify the time when something will happen or take place.

"Saat" / hour + / "da/de/ta/te"

​The date in Turkish

Let´s start with the days of the week and months.

Days of the week in Turkish

A simple conversation about a day of the week would be like the following:

Grammer tips

Let´s examine the vocabularies of the sentences first.

bu: this / gün:day / bugün: today / günler: days / günlerden: / from the days (also means among the days) ne: what

Months in Turkish

Exact date in Turkish

To ask the date, you say: -Bugünün tarihi ne? -14 Temmuz 2004.

Vocabulary:

bugün --> today  tarih --> date bugünün tarihi --> today´s date  ne --> what

The answer doesn´t need detailed explanation. The day number, followed by month´s name and finally the year.

Turkish seasons

Let´s see the words for the seasons and the translations in Turkish:

Summary:

We learned about time in Turkish on this page, asking time or date and about seasons. Studying on exercises will be helpful to understand better and for practice.