thanks bod i can use turkish characters now,cheers mate

Greetings Ade1,

I don't know any usage of the -dir where it is used as emphasis. It is mainly used on historical or scientific facts that are independent from personal experience. In fact by using -dir the person is claiming not to speak from personal experience.

Therefore when talking about "this car", "that table", "this man" etc. I can't think of a situation where using -dir would be suitable.

This is a typical usage: (scientific fact)

Kuşlar iki kanatlı hayvanlardır.
Birds are animals with two wings.

Türkiye'nin en büyük şehri İstanbul'dur.
Turkia's biggest city is İstanbul.

100'ün yarısı 50' dir.

Yalan söylemek iyi bir davranış değildir.
Lying isn't a good behavior.

The -dir has more to do with generalisation, building statements based on common facts and swiching from personal voice to common voice. I have a new translation for -dir. This might be the longest translation ever for a single suffix:

-dir = It is not my experience but it is a common and known fact that

Sorry, I forgot to mention the shorter translation:
-dir = is

hi erdinc,i've asked my wife about this and she said that this 'dir' rule is taught in Turkish schools to children,and can be used as emphasis,you are probably correct in what you are saying,but like i said i've also heard this used many times in turkiye,especially in disputes between two Turks.I'm not Turkish and i like the majority here am trying to learn;i have a sample site here
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/adjectives.htm

Greetings Ade1,

Unfortunately the author of www.turkishlanguage.co.uk is not Turkish. There are many mistakes on this website.

Long time ago the mistakes on this website have been an issue again.

Let's have a look on the page you are refrring to:
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/adjectives.htm

Ev, mavidir - The house is blue << incorrect

Should be "O mavi bir ev." or "Bu ev mavi".

"Bu ev mavidir" is acceptable but very weakly constructed.

Büyük beyaz bir ev(dir) - It is a big white house << incorrect

This sentence is incorrect in both versions:

"Büyük beyaz bir ev" : "a big, white house"
This is a noun phrase. It is not a sentence. It doesn't tell anything.

"Büyük beyaz bir evdir" : "is a big white house"
This time the sentence is incorrect because it is missing a subject. Something is a big white house but it doesn't say what. Adding "this" (bu) would correct the sentence.

The correct version could be one of these:

1. Bu, büyük ve beyaz bir ev.
2. Bu, büyük ve beyaz bir evdir.
3. Bu ev, büyük, beyaz bir evdir.

In sentence three, "evdir" is correct since the subject is "bu ev" (this house). It implies that there are other houses and I'm pointing to a fact about this particular house.
In sentence two, the sentence is well build if I'm telling a story. It not then it is weak.

"Düşmüş olan yapraklar nemlidir" - << correct
The leaves which have fallen are damp - The fallen leaves are damp.

This last one is a typical usage. It points to a scientific and general fact.

There are other usages of -dir.

It is common to use it with -mekte present continuous:

yapılmaktadır, gidilmektedir, olmaktadır etc.

It is also used in story telling:

Ayşe genç bir öğrencidir ve İstanbul'da yaşamaktadır.

İ was looking at the dictionary for the meaning of 'meet'to translate this

İ am going to meet with my friends

So i found it like this

meet
f. (met)
1. -e rastlamak, -e rast gelmek, ile karşılaşmak: I met Deniz by chance on my way to work. İşe giderken Deniz´e rastladım.

İt says it take a (e),
This means it take the (y)A state ?

So this (e) change to (a) accourding to the vowel ?

So i say , arkadaşıma restlayacakım

Doğru mu ?

merhaba
ARE you at home?=(SEN)Evde misin?


Actually "Are you a Turk?" =Sen (bir) Türk müsün?
Are you Turkish?=sen Türk müsün?

BUARADA Siir cevirisinde BASARILI OLAN VAR MI?sUNAY aKIN'IN SU GUZEL MISRALARINI CEVIRIR MISINIZ?
cAN YOU TRANSLATE THIS POEM?
"IKI AYRI YOLU GiBiYiZ
BiR TREN YOLUNUN
YAKIN OLMASI NEYI DEGişTiRiR
SON ISTASYONUN"

Firstly,

I never heard "dir" suffix is used to emphasize the thing that someone is telling about.

As erdinç mentiones, "dir" suffix tells about the scientific facts and used in historical writtings.

Ade1, you mention that you heard "dir" suffix was used during the debate between two Turks when you were in Turkey.
Would it be something as follows,

A= Geçen gün gördüğün araba mavimiydi? = Was the car that you saw a few days ago blue?
B= Evet, maviydi. = Yes it was blue.
A= Emin misin? Are you sure?
B= Evet, eminim. = Yes, I am sure.
A= Yeşildir o mavi değil. Yanliş hatırlıyor olabilirsin. = It would be green not blue. You would be remembering wrongly.

That is another story...

http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/adjectives.htm
The above site has some pronunciation examples. The person who created that site would have found a native Turk to pronounce the words. The accent in the pronunciations is so apparent and in some of them he puts the stress on the wrong syllable.

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