İ have got a Turk friend who wants me to teach him English, but İ don't speak Turkish and he doesn't speak English either. İt is very difficult to understand what he wants to tell me. İ really want him to help to. But İ first need to learn and understand some about Turkısh. So please help me. What does the sentence below means?

'Ben bir kuş olup uçmak isterdim.'

Thank you very much in advance.

I wanted to be a bird and fly away

'Ben bir kuş olup uçmak isterdim.'

"I'd want to be a bird and fly away"

İ guess you mean: İ'd like to be a bird and fly away'
And İ have two doubts:
1. olup ( comes from verb olmak (to be), am İ right? )So, suffix '-UP ' ...what means?
2. uçmak means 'fly' where is the complement 'away'. İ mean, for you can make a translation you must make use of imagination?

'up' is the ending that joins two verbs - so instead of translating I want to be a bird and I want to fly away you use the 'ip' ending (with vowel harmony) to joint the two verbs to make the sentence 'I want to be a bird and fly away'.

Uçmak translates as 'to fly away' on the site dictionary.

I am sure a native Turkish speaker can explain the 'ip' suffix to you better than I have! But I'm only learning like you!

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Aw thanks deli

Thank you very much Elisa