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1.       Yarvik364
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 20 Jan 2013 Sun 09:39 am


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2.       gokuyum
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 20 Jan 2013 Sun 11:47 am

 

Quoting Yarvik364

 

 

 

Lütfen is already "polite", so wouldn´t verin make the request excessively polite? 

 

 

 

Yes. This is also very formal.

3.       nemanjasrb
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 20 Jan 2013 Sun 11:57 am

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Edited (1/20/2013) by nemanjasrb [I deleted my answer because no one noticed.]

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4.       Yarvik364
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 20 Jan 2013 Sun 12:00 pm

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5.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 20 Jan 2013 Sun 12:02 pm

 

Quoting Yarvik364

But would it sound ridiculous to say this to one´s own father, for example?

 

Cheers,

Robert

Yes. It would be except you were the son of a king

 



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6.       Yarvik364
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 20 Jan 2013 Sun 02:29 pm

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Edited (7/23/2016) by Yarvik364

7.       gokuyum
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 20 Jan 2013 Sun 02:32 pm

 

Quoting Yarvik364

I´m using Rosetta Stone (no grammar explained) and they constantly use phrases such as: Lütfen mutfaktan sekiz tabak getirin. The accompanying pictures suggest that this is common language usage in Turkish (no royalty depicted here .

 

If this getirin adresses one person it is polite. But if it adresses more than one person it is normal. What makes it polite is lütfen.

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