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Dates
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1) Translate the following words from Turkish to English.
Days
a) Salı
b) Çarsamba
c) Cumartesi
Months
d) Nisan
e) Ocak
f) Ekim
g) Mart
Seasons
h) Kış
i) İlkbahar
2) Translate the following words from English to Turkish.
Days
a) Friday
b) Monday
c) Thursday
Months
d) February
e) September
f) July
g) June
Seasons
h) Summer
i) Autumn
3) Translate the following dates from English to Turkish.
(Remember, unlike English, years are said as a whole number, for example in English we say 'nineteen nighty nine' (19-90-9) but in Turkish we would say 'bir bin dokuz yüz doksan dokuz' (one thousand, nine hundred, ninety nine' - 1999)
a) February 8th
b) May 16th
c) 1st January 1995
d) 20th September 2006
e) 18th April 1980
f) 25th December 2001
4) Translate the following dates from Turkish to English.
a) On yedi Ekim
b) Yirmi dokuz Nisan
c) İki Ocak bir bin sekiz yüz seksen beş
d) On beş Ağustos iki bin dört yüz altı
e) Dokuz Eylül iki bin dokuz
Answers!
1) a) a) Tuesday, b) Wednesday, c) Saturday, d) April, e) January, f) October, g) March, h) Winter, i) Spring
2) a) Cuma, b) Pazartesi, c) Perşembe, d) Şubat, e) Eylül, f) Temmuz, g) Haziran, h) Yaz, i) Sonbahar
3) a) Sekiz Şubat, b) On altı Mayıs, c) Bir Ocak bir bin dokuz yüz doksan beş, d) Yirmi Eylül iki bin altı, e) On sekiz Nisan bir bin dokuz yüz seksen, f) Yirmi beş Aralık iki bin bir
4) a) 17th October, b) 29th April, c) 2nd January 1885, d) 15th August 2406, e) 9th September 2009