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Thread: very short e-turkish please

141.       erdinc
2151 posts
 19 Mar 2008 Wed 10:04 pm

This is an idiom. So I would use another idiom to meet this:

"Ektiğini biçersin" (You will harvest what you plant)



Thread: A very short sentence T>E lutfen

142.       erdinc
2151 posts
 19 Mar 2008 Wed 12:14 pm

Evet, böyle ara sıra uğruyorum. Görüşmek üzere tekrar.



Thread: A very short sentence T>E lutfen

143.       erdinc
2151 posts
 19 Mar 2008 Wed 12:04 pm

caliptrix,
You beat me on this. I missed your message as I was writing the below.

Hello,

"Ağzı var dili yok" (having a mouth but no tongue) is an idiom. It means the person hardly spoke. The person didn't speak much.

The word "geçim" is a noun. It means 'living cost' or just 'living' if the word is used in the same context. For instance the sentence, "What do you do for living?" could be translated as, "Geçimini nasıl sağlıyorsun?".

geçim+i+n+i :noun+third person possessive suffix+n buffer+accusative case

If we conjugate the noun with possessive suffix it will be like this:
benim geçim+im
senin geçim+in
onun geçim+i
bizim geçim+imiz
sizin geçim+iniz
onların geçim+i

After possessive suffixes we use the n buffer instead the y buffer. The n buffer is necessary to devide two vowels. The -i that comes to the very end of that word is the accusative case. We use it because sağlamak (to provide) takes the -i case. Temin etmek (to provide) takes the -i case as well.

In other words, the accusative is part of the following verb, sağlamak. "-i sağlamak" (to provide something) would take the -i case no matter what noun we would use as the object of it.

There are countles examples to this rule.
-i görmek: to see something
-i bilmek: to know something
-i düşÃ¼nmek : to thing about something
-i sevmek : to like something
-i sağlamak : to provide something
-i temin etmek : to provide something

In Turkish we have 'y', 'n' and 's' buffers.

Y is used with case suffixes and tense suffixes that don't have a possessive suffix:

Kediye bak. (kedi+y+e : noun+y buffer+dative case)
Bu kediyi çok seviyorum. (kedi+y+i : noun+y buffer+accusative case)
Bu küçük kedi yakında yürüyecek. (yürü+y+ecek : verb stem+ y buffer + future tense suffix)

S is used with possessive suffixes :
Bu Ali'nin kedisi. (kedi+s+i : noun + s buffer + third person possessive suffix).

N buffer is used with case suffixes where the noun has a preceeding possessive suffix:
Ali'nin kedisini hiç sevmiyorum. (kedi+s+i+n+i :noun + s buffer + 3rd person possessive suffix + n buffer + accusative case)

One detail about the N buffer is that it can nly be used after third person singular and plural possesive suffixes because only those end with a vowel.

As for the other word, the nominative is 'ağız' (mouth). The rule is that, (generally, but not always) words with two syllables (therefore two vowels) that have a flat second vowel will drop that vowel if they take a suffix that starts with a vowel.

Flat vowels are ı,i,u,ü. Ağız, alın, burun, beyin, etc. all have two vowels. All have a flast second vowel. Therefore all will drop that second vowel when they are followed by a suffix that starts with a vowel.

Lets use the first person possessive suffix as an example:
ağız> benim ağzım (instead ağızım)
alın> benim alnım (instead alınım)
burun> benim burnum (instead burunum)
beyin> benim beynim (instead (beyinim)



Thread: english to turkish, please. Thank you

144.       erdinc
2151 posts
 19 Mar 2008 Wed 11:14 am

Aynı dili konuşmamak öyle can sıkıcı ki. Aklımdaki pek çok şeyi seninle paylaşmak ve sana bir sürü soru sormak istiyorum ama aramızda şu dil problemi var.

Her zaman seni düşÃ¼nüyorum. Umarım çok canın sıkılmaz. Her şeyin daha iyiye gitmesi umuduyla.



Thread: Shortish E to T luften

145.       erdinc
2151 posts
 19 Mar 2008 Wed 11:08 am

Aşkı bulup kaybetmek hiç aşık olmamaktan iyidir.
It is better to finding and losing love than not loving at all.



Thread: turkish to english, please - Thank You

146.       erdinc
2151 posts
 19 Mar 2008 Wed 11:05 am

My version:
On Wednesday, 12th March 2008, you have been invited to Netlog, the social community of millions of young Europeans.



Thread: turkish Query

147.       erdinc
2151 posts
 18 Mar 2008 Tue 04:24 am

Call up times (summons) for military are four times a year: February, May, August, November.



Thread: Closure case against ruling party shocks Turkey

148.       erdinc
2151 posts
 16 Mar 2008 Sun 06:40 pm

I don't know anything about deleted messages, just in case you were wondering.

Political parties in Turkia and Europe are operating with different rules. If we manage some day to change the rules on how leaders or parliament members are elected, then we will have less problems and party cloesures will drop. Currently party leaders are selecting the parliament members.

The public is voting but votes only decide on the number of MP's. It is the leader who decides on the names.

In other words, in our system a party leader selects those people that are going to obey him, support him, don't question him and elect him again as leader. This system is wrong. Gangs operate like this, not a parliament.

Most of the problems are caused by this corrupt system. This is also the reason why we have such a weak CHP today. Because nobody can question the leader and if somebody dares they will show the door. In fact they do.

Another problem is that parliament members are exempt from law enforcement even for serious crimes. Both the election system of MP's and their status agains the law are problems we need to address. When something goes wrong we request the same standards for parties as they have in Europe but we don't have the same rules applied to them.

The parliament is to blame because they didn't do their job for decades to proivide a fair election system where a leader is not God. The public is to blame because we didn't push the parliament to do their job.

If the political parties were regulated in a reasonable way, we would have more choices. Being choiceless is something very hard to deal. At one side you have a gang of corrupt politicians who want to fill their pockets and help their own supporters, at the other side you have another gang. Neither is any better.

We need to address the problems correctly. People voted for the AKP not because the support Islamism but because there is no better choice. We all knew that politicans are going to steal but we were hoping that those Islamists would maybe steal less. You need to be honest about this. This is how an average citizen things on politics in Turkia.

A small note to non-Turkish members who are unfamiliar with the Turkish law: There is a law that gives the members parliament an untouchable status in law. They are untoucable even for serious crimes.

They can beat somebody in public and police can not touch them. I'm serious. Once an MP slapped an air hosstess. They all carry guns. They are also untoucable to any crime you can imagine including all economical crimes.

Buying a bank and then giving away credit to your own companies is very common. When the bank goes bankrupt the state pays the money to account holders. The companies get away with it. We have seen half a dozen of such banks. The two mainsteam parties involved in these were DYP and ANAP. The same people who rubbed the banks out of money are free and even some are in politics today.

Whom are you going to vote for if there is so much corruption?

The parliament didn't establish good grounds for cleaner politics and people were choiceless. Corruption increased the power of Islamists. Now, the supreme court is going to clean the mess caused mainly by the parliament.



Thread: Closure case against ruling party shocks Turkey

149.       erdinc
2151 posts
 16 Mar 2008 Sun 05:24 am

No, it works very good.

First we closed the Refah Party and then it sister party Fazilet was closed. Those two were more dark Islamist parties compared to the AKP.

After Refah and Fazilet was closed it was understood by everybody that there is no way an extremist Islamist party may be in lead in our country. Afterwards AKP was born. They are more of a kind of conservative party that shares some ground with the old extremists. Some of their members were transferred to AKP.

When you look into this topic you will see what I wrote almost a year ago:
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_7_16492_-1

On message #51 I said:

Quote:

We will fix the problems. Don't you worry. Those Arab admirers in Turkia can be sure they will pay for their actions.


Now it's pay time!

On message #84 I wrote the steps what those Islamists are following in order to change our country from a secular state to an Islamic.

Iran was not an Islamic state in the past. The Islamists became so strong that even the army could not stop them. We don't want the same to happen to us. They were not so lucky because their legal system did not stop the Islamists from changing their regime.

In Italy and Germany political parties have been closed down in the past. We have even more stronger reason to close down this one. And we will. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about. Besides closing the Islamist party there is a possibility that 71 people, including our president and our prime minister might be banned from politics for 5 years. I belive this is wrong. I think they should ban them forever. This is really entertaining news as you see.

Turks who have dedicated their lives to the secular Turkish Republic founded by Atatürk will not just sit there and watch it collapse. Those who are too naive to see the dangers need look no further than Iran. Just search their recent history. They are not a very old Islamic state.

This is not an embarrasment. It is a very welcoming news. Watching and experiencing those tough times as we are protecting our secularism with equal strength and determinism as the Islamists, is an honour for the children of Atatürk's Republic, like myself.

I'm very happy the system is protecting itself and not letting it to get worse to the point where our army must take charge. If this would happen those who cause the problems would have to pay with their lives.

I have told you what is really going on in my country. People who don't know our recent history very well, come with arguments that are isolated from historical background. For them it is hard to understand these events. They are surprised. There is nothing to be surprised here. The history of our republic, which is founded in 1923, is the history of fight between darkness and light.



Thread: Closure case against ruling party shocks Turkey

150.       erdinc
2151 posts
 16 Mar 2008 Sun 04:46 am

We are going to protect our secular republic against Islamists no matter what price it takes. This is a very happy event in our history that I'm proud of.



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