seyahat acentesi
“seyahat acentesi” — travel agency in Turkish. Noun, level A1, topic — buildings and premises. A link: acente becomes acentesi. seyahat is "a journey" — hence seyahat çeki too. In a live sentence: “Turu seyahat acentesinden aldık” — We booked the tour at a travel agency. You can hear how it sounds right here. One of 22 words in the set “buildings and premises” in the Turkish course.
In short
| Written in Turkish | seyahat acentesi |
| Translation | travel agency |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
- seyahat acentesitravel agency
Why it looks that way
A link: acente becomes acentesi. seyahat is "a journey" — hence seyahat çeki too.
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.
- Turu seyahat acentesinden aldıkWe booked the tour at a travel agency
Nearby words: buildings and premises
Where to go and what is done there. These words are read off a sign more often than they are spoken.
- lokantacanteenSimple, unpretentious food — a lunch counter or an inexpensive eatery. The pricier kind of place is called restoran.
- dükkânshopA small shop, a street-front store. The chain grocery is market, the mall is AVM.
- istasyonstationBoth a train station and a metro or commuter stop. The grand railway terminal gets the word gar — Haydarpaşa Garı.
- 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.
- bankabankDo not confuse with banko — that is a counter, a desk in an office. Both words are Italian, but in Turkish they split into two.
- eczanepharmacyc sounds like "j" in "jam": ej-za-NE
- marketgrocery storeThe corner shop. The big one is süpermarket, and the tiny counter shop is a bakkal.
- hastanehospitalhasta is "a sick person", -hane "a house": "the house of the sick". The same -hane in the familiar eczane and postane.
- ofisofficeFrom English. The boss's room has its own name — müdür odası, with the familiar oda.
- üniversiteuniversityTo study at one is üniversitede okumak, with the same okumak as "to read".
Test yourself
Five questions from the same set — “buildings and premises”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “travel agency” in Turkish?
A link: acente becomes acentesi. seyahat is "a journey" — hence seyahat çeki too.
- How do you say “grocery store” in Turkish?
The corner shop. The big one is süpermarket, and the tiny counter shop is a bakkal.
- How do you say “station” in Turkish?
Both a train station and a metro or commuter stop. The grand railway terminal gets the word gar — Haydarpaşa Garı.
- How do you say “university” in Turkish?
To study at one is üniversitede okumak, with the same okumak as "to read".
- How do you say “pharmacy” in Turkish?
The Persian tail -hane ("house, establishment") wore down to -ane: ecza ("medicines") plus house. hastane ("hospital") and postane ("post office") are built the same way.
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 “travel agency” in Turkish?
«seyahat acentesi». In a live sentence: “Turu seyahat acentesinden aldık” — We booked the tour at a travel agency. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1, from the set “buildings and premises”.
Why does this word look the way it does?
A link: acente becomes acentesi. seyahat is "a journey" — hence seyahat çeki too. 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 this 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.