The little words
Connectors, particles, yes and no — tiny words that hold whole sentences together.
- ho yes (also haw)
- oğay no
- bla and / withatam bla anam — my father and my mother
- üçün for, for the sake of
- sora then / afterandan sora — after that
- kibik like, asbügün duniya kibik, tambla ahıratdı — today is (this) world, tomorrow the hereafter — a proverb
- da too / alsomen da — me too
- deri until, as far askökge deri — up to the sky
- bar there ismende bar — I have it
- joq there is notzaman joq — there is no time
- neda or (the one that repeats through a list)sen neda ol — you or he
- oğese or (between two things, most often in a question)olmu oğese başhamı? — that one or the other?
The h in ho is the throaty one — the sound of Arabic خ, written х in Cyrillic, not the light English h. bar and joq are how having works in the whole language: mende bar — I have it (it exists at me); zaman joq — there is no time. neda and oğese both mean "or": neda is the one that repeats through a list, where English uses commas, while oğese normally sits between just two things and is most at home in a question.