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1.       ben.onur1
3 posts
 07 Feb 2014 Fri 02:29 pm

How to translete:

 

´Who visited you 2 days ago?´

it will be: ´seni kim 2 gün önce ziyaret etti


I´m learning Turkish few months, but it´s difficult language

 

Thank you for help!

2.       Khaur
13 posts
 07 Feb 2014 Fri 03:31 pm

I think kim should either be at the very beginning of the sentence: Kim seni... or just before the verb: ... kim ziyaret etti.

Placed where it it is neither at its normal place as a subject (first option) nor placed for emphasis on the question (second option).

But I´m just a learner, I could be wrong.

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3.       ben.onur1
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 09 Feb 2014 Sun 08:03 am

somebody else will help me? Just for be sure

4.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 09 Feb 2014 Sun 08:59 pm

 

Quoting ben.onur1

How to translete:

 

´Who visited you 2 days ago?´

it will be: ´seni kim 2 gün önce ziyaret etti


I´m learning Turkish few months, but it´s difficult language

 

Thank you for help!

 

You can translate this sentence differently according to which word you want to emphasize. I am assuming you are emphasizing "kim". So I will put it near the verb. Verb is ziyaret etmek(to visit):

 

Seni iki gün önce kim ziyaret etti?

 

If you want to emphasize "iki gün önce" then you should  put it near verb:

 

Kim seni iki gün önce ziyaret etti?

 

Here is the third scenario. If you want to emphasize "seni" then put it near verb:

 

Kim iki gün önce seni ziyaret etti?

 



Edited (2/9/2014) by gokuyum
Edited (2/9/2014) by gokuyum

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