“I am from…” in Turkish

In Turkish, “I am from…” is written as:

(last vowel is a bold vowel) -lıyım

(last vowel is a thin vowel) -liyim

(Editor’s note: When describing specifically where the speaker is from, -lıyım or -liyim, as suffixes, are used. -lıyım is affixed as a suffix to the name of a place when the last letter is a Turkish bold vowel (bold vowels include a, ı, u, o). And when the last word is a thin vowel (thin vowels include e, i, ü, ö) or any consonant, -liyim is used as the suffix.)

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Examples in sentences or statements

 
“I am from Türkiye.”

Türkiyeliyim.

 
“I am from Canada.”

Kanadalıyım.

 
“I am from Germany.”

Almanyalıyım.

 
“I am from the United States.”

Amerikalıyım.

 
“I am from a village in the south.”

Ben güneydeki bir köydenim.
 
(Editor’s note: In the above statement, in this case, the suffix -denim in köydenim gives the effect of “I am from…”. In Turkish, -den means “from”, -im means “I”, and köy means “village”. These three parts coalesce into the word köydenim.)
 

In other Mediterranean languages and dialects

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