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passive voice
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23 Jan 2006 Mon 01:56 am |
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How do you write that?
-Bunu nasıl yazıyorsun?
-Bu nasıl yazılır? (literally "how is this written?")
I'm wondering which suffix is used to express passive voice in Turkish. :-S
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23 Jan 2006 Mon 08:37 am |
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Quoting wallflower: How do you write that?
-Bunu nasıl yazıyorsun?
-Bu nasıl yazılır? (literally "how is this written?")
I'm wondering which suffix is used to express passive voice in Turkish. :-S |
According to WinMekMak the passive suffixes are -in and -il but the suffix dictionary I use doesn't list -il and only refers to -in for genative state and second person singular possessive suffix.
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23 Jan 2006 Mon 08:53 am |
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I've found a better explanation.....
The passive verb is formed by adding -li- after all consonants except 'l'. Vowel stems ending in 'l' or a vowel form their passive with their reflexive.....
Examples:
sevmek (to love) - sev-il- (to be loved)
almak (to buy) - al-ın- (to be bought)
This causes some cases of ambiguity between passive and reflexive. In such cases -il- can be added to the reflexive suffix to denote the passive state or a reflexive pronoun can be used to denote the reflexive state.
Only(?) one verb is irregular:
anlamak (to understand) - anlaşıl (to be understood)
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23 Jan 2006 Mon 09:32 pm |
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Thanx bod.
My grammar's being improved more and more 
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25 Jan 2006 Wed 10:05 am |
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There is also this article about the passive mood of verbs.....
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