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Definite But Partial Object?
1.       Abla
3648 posts
 30 Nov 2013 Sat 06:52 pm

O kitabı okudum.

 

Did I necessarily finish the book?



Edited (11/30/2013) by Abla

2.       sufler
358 posts
 30 Nov 2013 Sat 09:57 pm

Once I´ve heard it is possible to use the locative case to indicate that you read the book partially, just a piece. And then it is like: Kitapta okudum. 

But I am not very sure it is right

3.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 01 Dec 2013 Sun 12:02 am

 

Quoting Abla

O kitabı okudum.

 

Did I necessarily finish the book?

 

Yeah it gives such a meaning. 

4.       mehmet111
195 posts
 01 Dec 2013 Sun 12:35 am

Kitap okudum. (I read book.) [simp.past]

kitap+ı(accusative)

Kitabı okudum. (I read the book.)

 

Yes. You have finished the book.

 

kitap+da(locative)---->kitapta (in/at the book)

Kitapta okudum. (I read in the book.)

 

Şimdi anlattığın hikâyeyi bir kitapta da okudum. (I read the story you have been telling now in a book too.)



Edited (12/1/2013) by mehmet111

5.       sufler
358 posts
 01 Dec 2013 Sun 01:02 am

 

Quoting mehmet111

 

kitap+da(locative)---->kitapta (in/at the book)

Kitapta okudum. (I read in the book.)

 

Şimdi anlattığın hikâyeyi bir kitapta da okudum. (I read the story you have been telling now in a book too.)

 

Yeah, that´s the common Locative meaning.. I must have confused something... Perhaps it was a different case? Again, is there something like Kitaptan okudum to mean not only "I read from the book", but "I read the book partially"?

6.       Abla
3648 posts
 01 Dec 2013 Sun 01:57 pm

Thank you all the three of you. (Mehmet knows Finnish, he probably knows why I asked...)

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7.       mehmet111
195 posts
 02 Dec 2013 Mon 09:40 am

 

Quoting sufler

 

 

Yeah, that´s the common Locative meaning.. I must have confused something... Perhaps it was a different case? Again, is there something like Kitaptan okudum to mean not only "I read from the book", but "I read the book partially"?

 

Evet. Doğru düşünmüşsün. (Yes. You have thought true.)

 

Kitaptan okudum. (1I read the book. 2(explaining translation) I arrived this text/knowledge etc. via the book.

 

another examples for the meaning of "via" with ablative case:

e-posta (e-mail)

 

Makalenin PDF´sini bana Facebook´tan gönderme; e-posta adresimi vereyim, oradan gönder

(Don´t send me the PDF of the essay via Facebook, let me give my e-mail adress and send it via there.)

Sana bunu telefondan anlatamam, yüz yüze konuşmamız gerek.(I can´t tell you this on* the phone, we need to talk face to face.)

*I can´t tell this to you [talking] via telephone. (direct)

 

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