How To Write The Days, Months, & Seasons In Turkish

Planning your yearly calendar can either be a fun thing or a boring activity. But what you can do to spice up this smol project is to incorporate your language studies when crafting your pages. For example, if you’re learning Turkish, then you should try writing the days, months, and seasons in Turkish. This way, you’re learning how to write the words correctly while enhancing your vocabulary.

Don’t forget, you’re also practicing how to write the dates using the present Turkish writing format of DD.MM.YYYY which translates to Date.Month.Year. Let’s practice: if you have a cute calendar by you, write the date for today. Remember the format: date-month-year. Now, how’s that for a start?

Days of the week

In Turkey, Monday is the first day of the week.

• Monday: Pazartesi (pa-zar-teh-si)
• Tuesday: Salı (sa-luh)
• Wednesday: Çarşamba (char-sham-bah)
• Thursday: Perşembe (per-shem-beh)
• Friday: Cuma (ju-ma)
• Saturday: Cumartesi (ju-mar-teh-si)
• Sunday: Pazar (pa-zar)

Months of the year

The Turkish names of the months come from either Latin, Turkish, or Levantine Arabic.

• January: Ocak (ooh-jak)
• February: Şubat (shu-bat)
• March: Mart (mart)
• April: Nisan (nee-san)
• May: Mayıs (my-uhs)
• June: Haziran (ha-zee-ran)
• July: Temmuz (tem-muz)
• August: Ağustos (aw-us-tos)
• September: Eylül (ay-lool)
• October: Ekim (eh-kim)
• November: Kasım (kah-suhm)
• December: Aralık (ah-rah-luhk)

Seasons

Evet (yes), Turkey has all four seasons.

• Summer: Yaz (yaz)
• Autumn: Sonbahar (son-ba-har)
• Winter: Kış (kuhsh)
• Spring: Ilkbahar (eelk-ba-har)