Hey Siri
/hej siɾi/from spelling rules
The phrase "hey siri" in Turkish is Hey Siri.
How do you pronounce it?
The /h/ sound is like the [h] in [h]ome, the /j/ sound is like the [y] in [y]es, the /s/ sound is like the [s] in [s]end, the /i/ sound is like the [ee] in cr[ee]k and the /ɾ/ sound is like the [t] in the American English word a[t]om.
Did you know?
- Turkish speakers sometimes replace Hey Siri with Siri hanım or Siri bey as a joke, adding formal titles meaning 'Ms. Siri' or 'Mr. Siri' to be ironically polite to the AI.
- In Turkey, people often personify digital assistants by using gendered pronouns in conversation, even though Turkish is a gender-neutral language that uses only one word, o, for 'he', 'she' and 'it'.
- Turkish is an agglutinative language, meaning you could theoretically add suffixes to Siri to say 'Siri-ness' (Sirilik) or 'from Siri' (Siri'den), changing the word's function without adding new words.
Examples in context
- Hey Siri, yarın hava nasıl olacak?Hey Siri, how will the weather be tomorrow?
- Hey Siri, bana bir şaka yap.Hey Siri, tell me a joke.
- Hey Siri, en yakın eczane nerede?Hey Siri, where is the nearest pharmacy?
Example conversation
Selin and Can are in the kitchen.
- SelinHey Siri, zamanlayıcıyı beş dakikaya ayarla.Hey Siri, set the timer for five minutes.
- CanSelin, neden telefonuna söylüyorsun?Selin, why are you telling your phone?
- SelinYumurtalar haşlanıyor, Can.The eggs are boiling, Can.
- CanHaklısın, ben de yardım edeyim.You're right, let me help too.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Turkish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
