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ki as a sentence suffix
1.       Jo_Anne
81 posts
 06 Sep 2006 Wed 08:24 am

Will someone show me how sentence suffix s work.
çok teşekkürler

2.       erdinc
2151 posts
 06 Sep 2006 Wed 08:47 am

-ki can be a relative pronoun suffix or a conjunction.

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that is related to something (time, location, person, etc).

For instance these are relative pronouns:
sabahki
yoldaki
seninki

The second usege of ki is completely different. In fact these are two different suffixes. The conjunction ki is written seperatedly. Depending on the sentence it can be translated in many different ways.
"In fact", "on the other hand" or "so that" or "such" are some translations. The conjunction "ki" has a few typical usages. Let's take this sentence:

"Bill Gates dünyanın en zengin adamıymış ki öyle olduğuna hiç şaşırmadım."

There are two clauses in this sentence:
"Bill Gates dünyanın en zengin adamıymış"
"Bill Gates apppears to be the richest person in the world"
Then the second clause:
"it doesn't surprise me that this is the case"
And they are connected with 'ki'.

Another typical usage is after a verb:

"Beni ara ki sana gerekli bilgileri vereyim."
"Call me so that I can give you the necessary information."

3.       Jo_Anne
81 posts
 06 Sep 2006 Wed 08:58 am

Many thanks Erdinc,
I will make understanding ki my aim of the day. Sometimes I try to do too much at once and as an absolute beginner end up getting nowhere.

Jo-Anne

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