Sunday, February 26, 2017

388: Can we drop the formalities?


Subtitles:

Ya şu sizi bizi boş versek, sen ben desek?
= Look, can we drop the formalities?

Tamam.
= Ok.

Harika!
= Great!

Vocabulary:

ya [in this context= look; what if; how about]

şu [= this; that]

sizi [object pronoun= you (formal)]

bizi [object pronoun= us]

boş versek [= if we drop]
simple conditional mood from “boş vermek” [= to drop; to disregard; to ignore]

sen [subject pronoun= you (informal)]

ben [subject pronoun= I]

desek [= if we say]
simple conditional mood from “demek” [= to say]

Language Tip:
The word-for-word translation of our sentence here is:
Ya şu sizi bizi boş versek, sen ben desek?
= What if we drop this “you” “us”, what if we say “you” “I”?

tamam [= ok; deal; all right]

harika [= great; awesome]
  
Extra Phrases:

Never mind!
= Boş ver!

Currently.
= Şu anda.

As of this moment.
= Şu andan itibaren.

Video is from the Turkish Movie "Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever"
English Title: “Love likes coincidences

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