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Use of olmak with nouns
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10.       Elisa
0 posts 		 05 Feb 2006 Sun 01:24 pm

Quoting bod:

Oh???

Wouldn't "their cars" be arabalarları?



There is some explanation about that somewhere in this thread.
When there are two plural endings in a word, one drops.

Also, when the subject is plural, there is no need to put the verb in plural anymore.
Example:
Tekneler yavaş yavaş geçiyor
- The ships are passing slowly.

I also found this on this site: The plural ending will not be attached twice to the same word; therefore ambiguity is possible:

fikir "idea",
fikirleri "their idea" or
"their ideas" or
"her [or his] ideas".
Ambiguity can be resolved with #pronouns.

And from
this one: The third person forms are ambiguous: çocukları can be her/his children or their child or their children (the plural is not repeated).

11.       bod
5999 posts 		 05 Feb 2006 Sun 05:26 pm

Yes of course......
Something else I knew but had forgotten

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