sosis
“sosis” — frankfurter in Turkish. Noun, level A1, topic — food and drink. A thin wiener is sosis; the fat spicy kind is sucuk. Eggs fried with it are sosisli yumurta. In a live sentence: “Kahvaltıda sosis kızarttım” — For breakfast I fried frankfurters. You can hear how it sounds right here. One of 186 words in the set “food and drink” in the Turkish course.
In short
| Written in Turkish | sosis |
| Translation | frankfurter |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
- sosisfrankfurter
Why it looks that way
A thin wiener is sosis; the fat spicy kind is sucuk. Eggs fried with it are sosisli yumurta.
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.
- Kahvaltıda sosis kızarttımFor breakfast I fried frankfurters
Nearby words: food and drink
A menu, a market, a shop sign, the question “what is this?”. Food is the most frequent subject of the first weeks and the safest excuse to start talking.
- kahvecoffeeThe Turkish word from which both "coffee" and "café" were brewed across the languages of Europe.
- çayteaDrunk from a tulip-shaped glass and offered everywhere, shops included.
- suwaterThe shortest word in the course and one of the few irregulars: "my water" is suyum.
- ekmekbreadSpelled and sounded exactly like the verb ekmek, "to sow". The collision is an accident — but the month ekim (October, sowing time) really does come from that verb.
- peynircheeseThe white brined cheese will be on the breakfast table without fail.
- etmeatTwo words in one spelling: et is "meat", but also the imperative of etmek ("to do") — dikkat et, "pay attention". Only the place in the sentence tells you which.
- balıkfishı dotless. The root of balıkçı — both "fisherman" and "fish shop": the tail -çı turns a thing into the person busy with it.
- salatasaladAn Italian loanword. The plain chopped-vegetable kind is çoban salatası — "shepherd's salad": tomato, cucumber, onion.
- çorbasoupLentil mercimek çorbası is served everywhere and at any hour.
- tuzsaltThe root of tuzlu ("salty") — the tail -lu "with something" — and tuzsuz ("salt-free") — the tail -suz "without". The -lı/-sız pair works across the whole language.
Test yourself
Five questions from the same set — “food and drink”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “frankfurter” in Turkish?
A thin wiener is sosis; the fat spicy kind is sucuk. Eggs fried with it are sosisli yumurta.
- How do you say “fish” in Turkish?
ı dotless. The root of balıkçı — both "fisherman" and "fish shop": the tail -çı turns a thing into the person busy with it.
- How do you say “water” in Turkish?
The shortest word in the course and one of the few irregulars: "my water" is suyum.
- How do you say “salt” in Turkish?
The root of tuzlu ("salty") — the tail -lu "with something" — and tuzsuz ("salt-free") — the tail -suz "without". The -lı/-sız pair works across the whole language.
- How do you say “meat” in Turkish?
Two words in one spelling: et is "meat", but also the imperative of etmek ("to do") — dikkat et, "pay attention". Only the place in the sentence tells you which.
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 “frankfurter” in Turkish?
«sosis». In a live sentence: “Kahvaltıda sosis kızarttım” — For breakfast I fried frankfurters. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1, from the set “food and drink”.
Why does this word look the way it does?
A thin wiener is sosis; the fat spicy kind is sucuk. Eggs fried with it are sosisli yumurta. 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.