#tt_intermediate
Let’s say your friend wants to know more about your work. Can you tell him or her, what exactly you do at your job?

👩🏻‍✈️ citəklim / idarə itəm – I lead / manage
bülekne citəklim – I manage the department
bülek başlığı – head of a department
proyektlar citəklim – I manage projects
büdjetnı alıp baram – I manage the budget
törkem əğzasına birem birəm – I assign tasks to team members
törkemne əzerlim – I train the team
proyektlar tözim – I create projects

🗣️ kliyentlar belən söyləşəm – I talk to customers
oçraşularğa yörim – I attend meetings
kliyentlarlğa yərdəm kürsətəm – I provide customer support

📈 məğlümatnı analizlıym – I analize data
köndəşlərne tikşerəm – I research competitors
texnologiyələrne qullanam – I use technologies


Here is some useful work-related vocabulary that you should know:

🔎 eş ölkəse – field of work
eş ezləw – job-hunting
rezüme – CV
künekmələr – skills
eş təcribəse – work experience
interview – interview
yallaw – hire

💸 xezmət xaqı – salary
tüləw – to pay
alasım kilə – I want to get
aqça eşləw – to earn money
wazifanı kütərü – promotion

😥 deadline'nı ütəw – to meet a deadline
eş küləme – workload
artıq səğət eşləw – to work overtime
artıq küp eşləgən – overworked
tiyeşençə tülənmi – underpaid

🙅🏻‍♀️ dekretqa çığu – maternity/paternity leave
awırıp eştən qalu – sick leave
yal – vacation
eştən kittem – I left my job, resigned
eştən çığardılar – I was fired

Share in the comments what you do at work 👇🏼

#tt_advanced
Eş ezləw kiñəşləre

🔍 Bügenge dinamik həm köndəşlekle eş bazarında eş ezləw awır bulırğa mömkin həm strategik qaraş taləp itə.

Karyera maqsatlarığıznı, omtılışlarığıznı bilgeləgez. Qızıqsınularığızğa turı kilgən ölkələrne yəki rollərne qarağız. Yaxşı bilgeləngən maqsat sezgə eş ezlərgə həm iğtibarığıznı tuplarğa yərdəm itəçək.

Ostalığığıznı həm təcribəgezne kürsətüçe rezüme həm xat yazığız. Törle cirlәrgә ğariza tapşırğanda bu dokumentlarnı hәr ayırım eş öçen yañartığız.

köndəşlekle - competitive
taləp itü – to demand
omtılış - aspiration
ğariza tapşıru – to apply

🔗 Sotsial çeltərlər – eş ezləw protsessında köçle qoral həm küp eş mömkinleklərenə işeklər aça ala. Professional oyışmalarğa yazılığız, LinkedIn kebek platformalardağı professionallar belən elemtəgə keregez. Potentsial eş birüçelərne tikşeregez, alarnıñ şirkət kulturasın həm qimmətləren öyrәnegez.

Interview’lər ütkərep qarap, çın interview’ğa əzerlənegez. Sezneñ qazanışlarığıznı, ostalığığıznı həm şirkətneñ üseşenә nindi öleş kertә aluwığıznı añlatırğa əzer bulığız.

Eş ezləw awır bulırğa mömkin. Sabır bulığız, pozitiv bulığız. Qabul itmәsәlәr dә, ul sabaq bulaçaq, hər təcribəneñ faydası bar.

elemtəgə kerü - to get in contact
qimmət - value
qazanış - achievement
sabaq - lesson

👨🏻‍🏫 Ostazlardan yəki karyera belgeçlərennən kiñəş ezləgez. Alar qimmətle məğlümat birə həm eş ezləw strategiyəsen añlarğa bulışa ala.

Ölkə tendentsiyələren küzətep torığız. Daimi uqu həm professional üseş sezneñ uñışnı tağın da arttıra ala.

öleş kertü - to contribute
küzətü - to observe, keep track of
daimi - constant

#tt_culture
Do you believe in superstitions?

Qayum Nasıyri, a Tatar ethnographer who wrote a book "Qazan tatarılarnıñ ışanuları həm ğoref-ğədətləre" on the beliefs of Tatars, traveled to different Tatar villages and spoke to local people. After a lot of interviewing and an extensive research, he discovered that by means of signs and superstitions, Tatars used to try to find out mainly the following:

🌦 predicting the weather, whether it will rain or snow, and the prospects for grain and vegetable harvest

🫖 anticipating the arrival of guests and when they might receive gifts

🧿 identifying potential zarar (harm or misfortune)


Here are the superstitions that Qayum Nasıyri collected over the years:

🌦 If a Tatar's right ear itches, they interpret it as a sign of warm weather, while an itch in the left ear suggests cold weather.

When a cat scratches itself, it is seen as an omen of an approaching blizzard.

If a woman lays the first foundation of a house under construction, Tatars believe the house will be warm in winter.

When the Volga is covered with heaps of ice in winter, it is seen as a sign of a good harvest in summer.


🫖 While a piercing cry from a raven is taken as an indication of worsening weather, the chirping of a magpie signifies an incoming guest, and Tatars pay attention to the direction the magpie is facing to determine where the guest will arrive from.

If a cat is grooming itself, it is believed that a guest is on their way.

When a Tatar's lip itches, they are sure that they will receive a gift.

The rolling up of a hem while getting dressed or clothing getting caught in a door can signal forthcoming treatment or joy.

If, by mistake, a Tatar puts their clothes inside out, they will see in this a sign that they will have some kind of joy.

An itchy palm is interpreted as a sign of receiving money.

When someone sneezes, it is believed to confirm the truth of what was just said.


🧿 If a Tatar throws a pointed stake into a fire without removing the point, they are cautioned about getting a boil (furuncle).

Children are warned not to spit in the fire to avoid getting boils in their mouths.

If there is a jackdaw bird near the house, then, according to Tatars, "zarar bulır" - there will be trouble.

Do you know more Tatar superstitions that maybe you were told about by your grandparents? Let me know in the comments!

October 15 is a notable date in Tatar history – Xәter köne (Memorial Day of the Defenders of Kazan). On this day, the Kazan Khanate was captured by Ivan the Terrible in 1552.

The confrontation between the Moscow kingdom and the Kazan Khanate in the 16th century was a feudal war for territories until the fall of Kazan. After the capture of Tatar capital and the accession of the liquidated khanate lands to the possessions of Moscow Tsar, relations for many centuries passed into the format of colonial dependence, enslavement, the use of Tatar lands and Tatar people as a resource for the growth of a cruel, strong and aggressive Russian state with its capital in Moscow.
After the capture of Kazan, the entire territory of the Middle Volga region was captured by the Moscow kingdom. In addition to Tatars, the power of Moscow Tsar was extended to many peoples who had previously been subject to the former Kazan Khanate: Chuvash, Udmurts, Mari, Bashkirs. For the first time, Moscow annexed a large neighboring state beyond the borders of the former principalities of Russia, to which it now refers itself in its historiography. Soon after, Astrakhan Khanate (1556) and Siberian Khanate (1582) were conquered and annexed. Kazan Khanate became a victim of the imperial ambitions of Ivan the Terrible, his occupation policy towards the conquered peoples, aimed at their destruction. The planned Russification and Christianization of Tatars began. In parallel, there was an operation to erase the memory of the people: about their heroes, outstanding personalities, exploits, successes and achievements. This operation is still ongoing.

The aspiration of Tatars to declare independence in the 90s of the last century was treated in Moscow as Tatar separatism, although the demands of Tatars were based, among other things, on the fact of the siege and liquidation of the Kazan Khanate. Tatars of the Republic of Tatarstan repeatedly went out on October 15 to rallies under the slogans “The goal is independence!” and “Freedom!” At the rallies, they talked about the problems of their people: the closure of Tatar schools, the translation of education into Russian, the curtailment of Tatar television and radio broadcasting, the liquidation of Tatar newspapers and magazines, and the oppression of cultural and religious identity.

🔗 https://idel-ural.org/en/archives/then-this-all-started/

#tt_newbie #tt_beginner #tt_intermediate #tt_advanced

Spelling rules – based partially on Neo-alif by @bababashqort and partially on the Zamanalif.

In our first post we introduced post, we introduced you to the Tatar alphabet. The Latin-based alphabet represents all the sounds that the Cyrillic-based one doesn’t. You can listen to each sound in that previous post and then come back to get acquainted with the rules for the correct spelling.

1️⃣ The Cyrillic "ц" is transliterated as “ts”:
цунами → tsunami

"Сц" is transliterated just as “s” in the Latin spelling, “це” and “ци” as “se” and “si” respectively in loanwords:
сценарий → senariy
цент → sent
цивилизация → sivilizasiya

2️⃣ Letters “я, е, ю” at the beginning of a syllable are transliterated as "ya, yı, yu" if the syllable has a back vowel (ел → yıl), and as "yə, ye, yü" if the syllable has a front vowel (егерме → yegerme).

3️⃣ “W” is written instead of the Cyrillic “в” and “y” as a semivowel at the end of the words:
авыл → awıl
тау → taw
сөйләү → söyləw
сайлау → saylaw

✔️ In Tatar, a vowel can not be followed by another vowel, except in the newest loanwords with the original spelling.

4️⃣ When the letter “u” or “ü” is followed by a vowel, a “w” is put between the vowels:
алуы → aluwı
уу → uwu
китүе → kitüwe
көлүе → kölüwe

✔️ Exception: the imperative verb “у” (to scrub) is written as “uw”, not “u”

5️⃣ Syllables "ка, га, ко, го, кый, гый, кы, гы, ку, гу" are spelled as "qa, ğa, qo, ğo, qıy, ğıy, qı, ğı, qu, ğu" if there are back vowels in the word:

бака → baqa
кояш → qoyaş
чокый → çoqıy
гына → ğına
агу → ağu

6️⃣ If the word has front vowels (in the Arabic and Persian loanwords), these syllables are spelled "qə, ğə, qö, ğö, qi, ği, qe, ğe, qü, ğü":

гомер → ğömer
кагыйдә → qəğidə
кыйммәт → qimmət
шөгыль → şöğel
куәт → qüwət

7️⃣ If at the end of a word with front vowels there is a "къ" or "гъ", "къ" transliterates as "q" and "гъ" as "ğ".
нәкъ → nəq

8️⃣ "Ь" is not transliterated in any way.

9️⃣ The apostrophe ( ' ) indicates the glottal stop in certain loanwords, such as “Qör'ən”, “tə'sir” or “ma'may”

✔️ If no available fonts support the letter “Əə”, it can be replaced by “Ää”

✔️ The dot is used to indicate ordinal numbers:
20. bittə – on page 20
8. bülektə – in section 8

✔️ The following type of quotation marks is used: “ ”.

#tt_info
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#tt_newbie
I'm from...

Sin qaydan? – Where are you from?
Sin qayda tudıñ? – Where were you born?
Sin qayda yəşiseñ? – Where do you live?

Min ...dan/dən. – I’m from…
Min ...da/də tudım. – I was born in…
Tuğan ilem / cirem ... – My home country / homeland is…
Min ...da/də yəşim. – I live in…
Min ...dan/dən ....ğa/gə küçendem. – I moved from … to …

🇦🇿 Azərbaycan - Azerbaijan
🇩🇪 Almaniyə - Germany
🇺🇸 Amerika Quşma Ştatları (AQŞ) – United States of America (USA)
🇦🇺 Awstraliyə - Australia
🇩🇿 Əlcəzair – Algeria
🇦🇲 Ərmənstan – Armenia
🇦🇫 Əfğənstan – Afghanistan
💙🤍💚 Başqortstan – Bashkortostan
🇧🇭 Bəxrəyn – Bahrain
🇦🇪 Berləşkən Ğərəp Əmirlekləre – United Arab Emirates
🇬🇧 Böyekbritaniyə (Berləşkən patşalıq) – Great Britain (United Kingdom)
🇵🇸 Fəlestin – Palestine
🇬🇪 Görcistan – Georgia
🇮🇶 Ğiraq – Iraq
🇮🇳 Hindstan – India
🇿🇦 Könyaq Afrika Cömhüriyəte – Republic of South Africa
🇰🇷 Könyaq Koreya – South Korea
🇸🇸 Könyaq Sudan – South Sudan
🇰🇼 Küwəyt – Kuwait
🇵🇱 Ləxstan – Poland
🇱🇧 Lübnən – Lebanon
🇭🇺 Macarstan – Hungary
🇪🇬 Misır – Egypt
🇲🇪 Montenegro – Montenegro
🇳🇱 Niderlandlar - Netherlands
🇵🇰 Pakstan – Pakistan
🇰🇿 Qazaqstan – Kazakhstan
🇨🇾 Qıbrıs – Cyprus
🇰🇬 Qırğıstan – Kyrgyzstan
🇨🇳 Qıtay – China
🇷🇺 Rusiyə, Rəsəy – Russia
🇸🇦 Soğud Ğərəpstanı – Saudi Arabia
🇸🇧 Söləyman Utrawları – Solomon Islands
🇸🇾 Süriyə – Syria
💚🤍❤️ Tatarstan - Tatarstan
🇹🇯 Tacikstan – Tajikistan
🇰🇵 Tönyaq Koreya – North Korea
🇹🇲 Törekmənstan – Turkmenistan
🇹🇷 Törkiyə – Türkiye
🇺🇦 Ukrayina - Ukraine
🇨🇫 Üzək Afrika Cömhüriyəte – Central African Republic
🇺🇿 Üzbəkstan – Uzbekistan
🇯🇴 Ürdün – Jordan
🇪🇹 Xəbəşstan – Ethiopia
🇾🇪 Yəmən – Yemen
🇳🇿 Yaña Zelandiyə – New Zealand
🇬🇷 Yunanstan – Greece

These countries have names that differ from English or have a special spelling. Most other countries' names are quite close to English.

Let me know in the comments: sez qaydan? (where are you from?)
Qayda yəşisez? (Where do you live?)
If you’re from Tatarstan, feel free to mention the district (in Tatar, of course 😉)

Tatarstan rayonnarı | Tatarstan's districts

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#tt_beginner
Ablative

The ablative is formed with the suffixes -dan, -dәn, -tan, -tәn, -nan, -nәn.

🔹 -dan, -dәn are joined to the stems ending in a vowel or a voiced consonant:

bülmәdәn - from the room
yuldan - from the road

🔹 -tan, -tәn to the stems ending in a voiceless consonant:

taştan - out of stone,
tişektәn - from the hole,

🔹 -tan to loanwords ending in b, g, d:

klubtan - from the club
Orenburgtan - from Orenburg
sudtan - from the court

🔹 -nan, -nәn to stems ending in nasals:

tönnәn - from the night
miñnәn - from the mole
bülemnәn - from the department

🔹 If the stem is the possessive third person singular or plural, an n precedes the ablative suffix. This n requires the ablative in its form of -nan, -nәn:

dustınnan - from his/her friend
küzlәrennәn - from his/her eyes

🔷 The ablative functions:

· As the object denoting the person or thing from whom or from which something is received, bought, taken away, asked, etc.:

Yuq, min sinnən bülək qabul itə almıym ... (Əmirxan Yeniki, "Rəşə")
No, I cannot accept a present from you …

· As the object of verbs governing this case. Such verbs are rather numerous. They may be verbs of feeling, e.g.:

oyalu - to be ashamed of
qurqu - to be afraid of
şiklənü - to doubt / be suspicious of
tuyu - to be full / fed up
könləşü - to be jealous of

· Or they may be verbs of various meanings, such as:

saqlanu - to guard oneself against
qotılu - to save oneself, to escape
ayırılu - to part / to differ
faydalanu - to make use of
kölü - to laugh (about)
soraw - to ask
etc.

Nərsədən kölələr ikən? - What can they be laughing about?

· As the object denoting the characteristic by which someone or something is recognized:

Monı niçekter anıñ tışqı qıyəfətennən ük sizep bula ide. (Əmirxan Yeniki, "Rəşə")
Somehow one could feel this from his very appearance.

· As the object denoting the material of which something is made:

Biredə təcribəle ostalar üzləreneñ şəkertləren metaldan, agaçtan, döyə söyəgennən, baqa qabıqlarınnan törle matur əyberlər yasarğa öyrətələr... (Luiza Şəydullina, "Piramidalar ilendə")
Here, experienced masters are teaching their students to make various beautiful objects out of metal, wood, camel bone, tortoise shells…

· As the object denoting the point toward which the action is directed:

qıznıñ qullarınnan tottı - took the girl by her hands
ulınıñ mañğayınnan übep, qarşısına utırdı - he kissed his son on his forehead and sat down in front of him

· Furthermore, the ablative gives precision to an action in many ways: motion or distance from a point or place, time, age, cause, manner, measure, and degree:

Min keçe yəştən kitap uqırğa yarata idem. (Gölşəhidə, "Minem qala aluwım")
I have loved reading books since childhood.

· The ablative also singles out a part from a whole:

köndəlektən ber bit - a page from the diary

· The ablative is used to express comparison:

sinnən yaxşıraq beləm - I know better than you

🔷 Let's look at how the ablative is used in the dialog:

A: Saləm, min baqçamnan qaytıp cittem.
B: Niçek anda?
A: Küp itep alma cıydım. Teləsəñ, minnən beraz ala alasıñ.
B: Rəxmət. Qızım öçen almadan püre yasarğa yaratam.
A: Minnən hərwaqıt alma sorıy alasıñ, bıyıl minem uñış küp.
B: Rəxmət yawsın. Siña min yasağan alma püresennən bersen birermen.
A: Tizrək aşap qarıysım kilə.

________________

A: Hi, I just came back from my garden.
B: Oh, how was it?
A: I picked a lot of apples. If you want, you can take some from me.
B: Thank you. I like making puree out of apples for my daughter.
A: You can always ask me for fresh apples, I have a lot of harvest this year.
B: Thank you so much. I’m going to give you one of the jars of apple puree that I make.
A: I can’t wait to try it.