iade yapmak
“iade yapmak” — to process a return in Turkish. Phrase, level B1, topic — shopping and money. "to do a return": iade, the giving-back word. Receipt required, mood optional. In a live sentence: “İade yapmak istiyorum” — I want to process a return. You can hear how it sounds right here. One of 85 words in the set “shopping and money” in the Turkish course.
In short
| Written in Turkish | iade yapmak |
| Translation | to process a return |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- iade yapmakto process a return
Why it looks that way
"to do a return": iade, the giving-back word. Receipt required, mood optional
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- İade yapmak istiyorumI want to process a return
Nearby words: shopping and money
How much it costs, whether there is a smaller one, whether cards are accepted. A shop forgives mistakes: miss a word and they will show you the thing with their hands anyway.
- ne kadar?how much is it?Literally "how much". This is exactly how you ask about a price.
- liraliraWritten "TL" — Türk lirası. The ₺ sign only appeared in 2012.
- dükkânshopA small shop, a street-front store. The chain grocery is market, the mall is AVM.
- pazarstreet marketThe same word means "Sunday": the neighborhood market was set up on Sundays and the day took its name from it. To speak of the day, people say pazar günü.
- tezgâhcountersoft g, the vowel stretches: tez-GYAH
- satıcısellerboth ı dotless, c as "j" in "jam": sa-tuh-JUH
- müştericustomerAn Arabic word. One word for the buyer, the client and the café regular.
- teraziscalesThe same root as the zodiac sign Libra — Terazi. In Turkish it is one word, not a pair.
- kilokiloThe full kilogram almost never appears in speech: at the market people say bir kilo.
- tazefreshAt the market they shout taze taze! — repeating the word boosts it, a very Turkish trick.
Test yourself
Five questions from the same set — “shopping and money”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “to process a return” in Turkish?
"to do a return": iade, the giving-back word. Receipt required, mood optional
- How do you say “customer” in Turkish?
An Arabic word. One word for the buyer, the client and the café regular.
- How do you say “shop” in Turkish?
A small shop, a street-front store. The chain grocery is market, the mall is AVM.
- How do you say “fresh” in Turkish?
At the market they shout taze taze! — repeating the word boosts it, a very Turkish trick.
- How do you say “seller” in Turkish?
satmak is "to sell", and -ıcı makes the doer. The same suffix in yazıcı — "printer".
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to process a return” in Turkish?
«iade yapmak». In a live sentence: “İade yapmak istiyorum” — I want to process a return. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1, from the set “shopping and money”.
Why does this word look the way it does?
"to do a return": iade, the giving-back word. Receipt required, mood optional. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.