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Problem with turkish grammar
1.       Cathy95
15 posts
 09 Apr 2015 Thu 03:58 pm

Merhaba,

I don´t understand why sometimes my friend write : ben gelicem or ben gidicem or ben yaticam....

For me normally it is : ben geliyorum or ben gidiyorum or ben yatiyorum.

Can you explain me ?

Tesekkur ederim !

2.       deli
5904 posts
 09 Apr 2015 Thu 04:10 pm

 

Quoting Cathy95

Merhaba,

I don´t understand why sometimes my friend write : ben gelicem or ben gidicem or ben yaticam....

For me normally it is : ben geliyorum or ben gidiyorum or ben yatiyorum.

Can you explain me ?

Tesekkur ederim !

 

there are just shortened versıons of geleceğim gideceğim yatıcağım

I wıll come

I wıll go

I wıll sleep

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3.       Cathy95
15 posts
 09 Apr 2015 Thu 06:11 pm

Tesekkur ederim !

4.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 16 Apr 2015 Thu 04:35 pm

5.       ikicihan
1127 posts
 18 Apr 2015 Sat 10:05 pm

geleceğim>gelecem>gelcem

yapıyorum>yapıyom

ne haber> n´aber

ne ediyorsun>nîdiyoñ or neediyon

...

these are used cus it´s easy to pronounce.

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6.       tunci
7149 posts
 18 Apr 2015 Sat 11:45 pm

 

The shortest form --->  -cem/cam  is shortened version of future tense ending for 1st singular -eceğim/acağım, it is used because of laziness and for the sake of quick talk by dropping couple of letters.

-cem [cam]----> eceğim

-cen [can] ----> eceksin

----

- cez [caz] ----> cağız

---

----

**************************

 

giyin + cem = giyineceğim ----------> "I will get dressed"

                                                      " I am going to get dressed"




Edited (4/18/2015) by tunci

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7.       denizli
970 posts
 19 Apr 2015 Sun 12:57 am

Would gelecem be considered slang? gelcem?



Edited (4/19/2015) by denizli

8.       JNQ
465 posts
 20 Apr 2015 Mon 09:24 am

I don’t think it’s slang, because they are not impolite or rude and it doesn’t belong to any group in particular. It’s just ‘lazy’. It’s like ‘gimme’, or ‘gonna’ or ‘dunno’. ‘Geleceğim’ pronounced fast becomes ‘gelecem’.



Edited (4/20/2015) by JNQ
Edited (4/20/2015) by JNQ

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