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Yarvik364
162 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 12:18 pm

Edited (7/23/2016) by Yarvik364

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si++
3785 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 12:19 pm

Quoting Yarvik364

Dinners can not possess meals, so what is the meaning of: it was a dinner´s meal?

It was a dinner´s meal that visited me when I cooked last time.

AGAIN: this is not about you in person, this is merely a linguistic quest in order to learn.

Before posting I googled for it and found examples with saxon genitive as well just like I posted so I didn´t changed it. Is English your first lingo?

Note: don´t worry I think I can smell if it is personal or not.

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si++
3785 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 12:23 pm

Quoting mltm

you are right in your thinking but I think what I said is more or less the same thing because the question is "what did you cook the last time you cooked", "Lastly I cooked dinner"

-en son ne pişirdin?

-en son akşam yemeği pişirdim.

"Lastly I cooked dinner" makes me think maybe "you cooked lunch (or whatever) before than that".

I think without a context my interpretation is more likely.

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Yarvik364
162 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 12:37 pm

Edited (1/29/2013) by Yarvik364
Edited (7/23/2016) by Yarvik364

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mltm
3690 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 12:45 pm

Quoting Yarvik364

I really must understand this properly, so pardon my endless stream of questions.

At last is used, for example, when you are very tired at the end of a day. One could then say (having found some rest): at last! Is that what you mean by en sonunda? Eventually is not the same as finally either.

Yes, you say it for something done that has been longing for.

You can say just "sonunda" in the place of "en sonunda".

(En) sonunda geldin. At last you arrived.

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Yarvik364
162 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 12:50 pm

Edited (7/23/2016) by Yarvik364

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si++
3785 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 01:00 pm

Quoting Yarvik364

Where are the examples on Google that confirm the correctness of this phrase: It was a dinner´s meal when I cooked last time.

google "dinner´s meal" where you can´t find it. Now are you saying "a dinner´s meal" would be incorrect while the following can be OK for example?

That is when after a days work they will still request that I cook the dinner´s meal.

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Yarvik364
162 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 01:23 pm

Edited (7/23/2016) by Yarvik364

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harp00n
3993 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 04:04 pm

www.synonym.com

If you type "eventually" in there you will see "finally".

I dont know what happened to New British Users in here, cause whatever we say, they dont understand us. Old users always understand us easily....

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Yarvik364
162 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 04:28 pm

Edited (7/23/2016) by Yarvik364

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si++
3785 posts

29 Jan 2013 Tue 04:35 pm

Quoting Yarvik364

But that is not the point. The point is this formulation: a dinner´s meal ... What is that?

Me speaks "pigeon English".

Let me rephrase it:

The last meal I cooked was dinner. or

The last time I cooked, I cooked dinner.

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