Use tuzlu for a salty taste; in informal contexts a price can also be tuzlu.

The idea

Çorba tuzlu describes salty soup. Fiyat tuzlu can figuratively mean that the price seems steep.

Examples

  • Bu çorba tuzlu.This soup is salty.
  • Tuzlu bir peynir aldım.I bought a salty cheese.
  • Bu yemek tatlı değil, tuzlu.This dish is not sweet; it is salty.
  • Tuzlu kurabiyeler masada.The savory biscuits are on the table.
  • Deniz suyu tuzlu.Sea water is salty.
  • Bu fiyat bana tuzlu geliyor.This price seems steep to me.

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Watch out

A salty dish concerns taste; a “salty” price is a figurative judgment about cost, not food.

Try it yourself

  1. Choose the option that completes the Turkish sentence. Çorbanın içinde çok tuz var: çorba ___. (tuzlu / tatlı)

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    tuzlu

    Tuzlu fits soup with a salty taste.

  2. Choose the option that completes the Turkish sentence. Fiyat bana çok pahalı geliyor: fiyat bana ___. (tuzlu / tatlı)

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    tuzlu

    Tuzlu describes the price as steep in this figurative use.

  3. Choose the option that completes the Turkish sentence. Bu yemek tuzlu ___; tatlı. (değil / mi)

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    değil

    Değil negates tuzlu: the dish is sweet.

Use it today

Describe a salty dish and react to a steep price.