WANT TO SAY: It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.


MY TRANSLATION: Hiç sevmemiş olmaktansa sevip kaybetmek daha iyidir.


MY CONFUSION: I shouldn't use 'sevmemiş' in one place but not the other, should I? Each sevmek should say 'have loved' but the way I did it one says 'sevmemiş' and the other says 'sevip' (which I take to mean simply 'to love' not 'to have loved.')

How would you translate the sentence yourself?

In regular, every-day Turkish can you make a construction like 'sevmemiş olmak' or does it sound like translated Turkish, not regularly-spoken Turkish?

Again, many thanks!!!!