How does Turkish handle the word for one thousand?

Turkish drops the leading 'bir' before 'bin', so 1000 is just 'bin', not 'bir bin'. The same drop does not apply to million or higher, where 'bir milyon' is correct.

One Turkish lira is divided into 100 kuruş, the same way a euro splits into cents. The decimal part of your amount is rounded to two digits and spelled as the kuruş value.

Does Turkish use spaces between number words?

Yes. Unlike German, Turkish number words are written separately, so 'iki yüz otuz dört' (234) is three words. This tool follows that spacing convention.

What happens with zero kuruş?

If the kuruş part is zero the phrase ends at 'lira' and the kuruş portion is omitted, matching how amounts are normally written out on Turkish documents.

Are large amounts supported?

Yes, up to the trillion (trilyon) scale. The tool groups digits into thousands and applies bin, milyon, milyar, and trilyon scale words as needed.

Turkish Currency in Words

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Writing a money amount out in words is required on cheques, invoices, and many contracts. In Turkish this means spelling the integer lira part, the word lira, then the two-digit kuruş part. This tool does that conversion entirely in your browser using the standard Turkish number-word rules.

How it works

Turkish numbers are built from a small set of root words. The units are bir, iki, üç, dört, beş, altı, yedi, sekiz, dokuz; the tens are on, yirmi, otuz, kırk, elli, altmış, yetmiş, seksen, doksan; and yüz is hundred. Each group of three digits is spelled and then suffixed with a scale word — bin (thousand), milyon, milyar, trilyon.

A key Turkish rule the tool applies is the leading-one drop: you say yüz not bir yüz for 100, and bin not bir bin for 1000. For one million and above the bir is kept, so 1,000,000 is bir milyon.

The amount is split into the integer lira part and a kuruş part. The kuruş part is the fractional value times 100, rounded to a whole number between 0 and 99, and spelled with the same number engine.

Tips and example

1234.56 becomes bin iki yüz otuz dört lira elli altı kuruş.
100 becomes yüz lira — the kuruş part is dropped when it is zero.
0.05 becomes sıfır lira beş kuruş; a zero lira value is spelled as sıfır.
Both 1234,56 and 1234.56 are accepted as input, since Turkish uses a comma decimal separator in everyday writing.