Thanks to you & Because of you

Today we will learn to say thanks to you both in positive and negative terms.

1) How to say "thanks to you" and show our appreciation in Turkish. 

After reading this page, you will have more words to say when you want to thank someone.  

Sayende means thanks to you, but for the other personal pronouns it changes. Because we add the genitive suffixes. 

The formula is: "saye + genitive suffix + de"

benim sayemde

senin sayende

onun sayesinde

bizim sayemizde

sizin sayenizde

onların sayelerinde/sayesinde 

*It is okay to omit the personal pronoun but I recommend you to use, it will sound better and more polite.

examples

Burada çalışmaya senin sayende başladım. Sen bana söylemeseydin, benim o iş ilanından haberim olmazdı. (I started to work here thanks to you, if you did not tell me, I would not be aware of that job ad.)

Canları çok sıkkındı ama ben komik hikayeler anlattım ve benim sayemde güldüler biraz. (They were very bothered but I told them funny stories and they luaghed a little bit thanks to me.)

*When you do not use a personal pronoun but another person orobject title like mother, house, school, teacher, it is acceptable not to add the gentive suffix to those words. And as they take the same suffix with the third singular or plural subject, you always use the word sayesinde(singular) or sayelerinde(plural) with them. And it is okay to use sayesinde with the plural nouns like we usually skip the plural suffixes in daily Turkish.

Annem(in) sayesinde okumaya erken başladım. Thanks to my mother, I started to read early (in early ages).

Yardımseverler(in) sayesinde okul için gerekli parayı toplamayı başardık. (Thanks to the charitable people, we succeded in collecting the money that is needed for the school.

Bu kitap/kitabın sayesinde çok sayıda yeni kelime öğrendim. Thanks to this book, I learned many new words.

2) What if something negative happened and you need to blame someone?

When something bad happened and you think that someone, something or a group of people is responsible for that, then you say "becuase of you = senin yüzünden"

Yüz means face, (well it is such an interesting word that means 4 different things. The other three are: hundred, and the imperative forms of the verbs to swim and to skin out) and it is like the face of the guilty person refers directly to that person.

benim yüzümden

senin yüzünden

onun yüzünden

bizim yüzümüzden

sizin yüzünüzden

onların yüzünden (we always use the singular for the third plural subject, too)

As you see everything is same with "saye" formula. We add the genitive suffixes that's all.

examples

Senin yüzünden işe geç kaldım. I became late for work because of you.

*Except using the personal pronouns that I wrote above,we usually use the nouns without the suffixes with the word yüzünden.

Bir şarkı yüzünden kavga mı ettiniz? Did you argue because of a song?

Bu tembel adamlar yüzünden evin tamiri 3 ay sürdü. The repair of house took 3 months because of these lazy men.

Kötü hava şartları yüzünden tüm uçuşlar iptal edildi. Because of the bad weather conditions, all the flights have been canceled.

Other Notes

*Likewise, when there is a negative reason we usually use the phrase "bu yüzden"(=for this reason), but if the reason is positive we say bu sebeple/bu nedenle.

Are we okay so far? Then the let's learn the today's secret Turkish lesson !

*If you say sayende (or sayemizde,..sayelerinde) although something negative happened, then it sounds sarcastic. You should know that if you say this in a negative situation, your friend can get angry. You take all the responsibility.

Hope you liked and found it simple to learn. Have a nice day!

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