"Excuse me!"

Translation: Affedersin!

[vfurmanov]

So if I'm understanding the pattern correctly, affedersin is informal and affedersiniz is formal?

[Elizabeth840765]

Yes! Or plural :)

[vfurmanov]

Thanks :)

[ab.benz]

Yes

[Anthony_Amici]

fyi, "Pardon!" is accepted as well. Pronounced similar to as it is in French.

[SujalManda]

When i was there in turkey i only heard people use pardon

[superpenguin1]

Yes, It can be used too.

[HannelieSc]

Is this excuse me for getting attention? Or excuse me like an apology?

[9of16]

It is an apology type of excuse me. Pardon is used to get through. If I remember correctly, afedersin comes from the turkish word meaning forgive, so it means forgive me. I think, I'm no turkish expert.

[birrimsi]

both of them is possible

[Mirolla10]

I heard it once in a film as an apology

[jsmitten]

Does this come from "auf wiedersehen" by any chance?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Nope :) It comes from the the Arabic word 'عفو' (meaning "pardon") and the Turkish verb "etmek' (meaning "to do").

[mandanesss]

Why doesn't this have an ı instead of
the i?

[mizinamo]

Because the last vowel before it is "e" (affedErsin), which is front and unrounded.

[Mirolla10]

It depends on the pronunciation as the pronunciation of the letter (ı) is different from the pronunciation of the letter (i)

[MadeleineC429233]

I'm unsure if it's just the recorded pronunciation and wanted to clarify: is it more of an "ar" sound or an "er" sound when 'er' is written?

[noorsami5]

thanks

[shahin758484]

So during my stay in Istanbul people dont use this word and they use pardon

[abkow1]

Ederim means

[mizinamo]

Basically "I do". But it's used a lot together with nouns to turn them into verbs -- e.g. teşekkür ederim "I do thanks/thanking", but a better translation is just "I thank" or "thank you".

[wpX28]

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