pazarlık etmek
“pazarlık etmek” — to bargain in Turkish. Verb, level B1, topic — shopping and money. pazarlık etmek — pa-zar-LUHK et-MEK. In a live sentence: “Pazarda biraz pazarlık ettik” — At the market we did a bit of bargaining. 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 | pazarlık etmek |
| Translation | to bargain |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
- pazarlık etmekto bargain
How to pronounce it
pazarlık etmek — pa-zar-LUHK et-MEK
Why it looks that way
pazarlık, the haggling you know, + etmek: the doing of it. Bazaars insist; malls pretend otherwise
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.
- Pazarda biraz pazarlık ettikAt the market we did a bit of bargaining
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 bargain” in Turkish?
pazarlık, the haggling you know, + etmek: the doing of it. Bazaars insist; malls pretend otherwise
- 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 bargain” in Turkish?
«pazarlık etmek». pazarlık etmek — pa-zar-LUHK et-MEK. In a live sentence: “Pazarda biraz pazarlık ettik” — At the market we did a bit of bargaining. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Verb, level B1, from the set “shopping and money”.
Why does this word look the way it does?
pazarlık, the haggling you know, + etmek: the doing of it. Bazaars insist; malls pretend otherwise. 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.