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27 Aug 2007 Mon 08:50 pm |
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Quoting MarioninTurkey: -Yeterli param olacak, inşallah! |
I understand the meaning (I think) but not how the sentence is constructed.....can you explain???
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 09:04 pm |
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Quoting bod: Quoting MarioninTurkey: -Yeterli param olacak, inşallah! |
I understand the meaning (I think) but not how the sentence is constructed.....can you explain??? |
OK. First of all, you wrote I hope that ...
You can either fiddle about with umarım ki ... or -cağına ümit ediyorum, but the constructs are a bit more advanced. To make it simpler I said "inşallah" for the I hope bit.
If you want to use the I hope form:
Umarım ki yeterli param olacak.
or
Yeterli param olacağıma ümit ediyorum. But inşallah does the trick!
Yeter: enough! Like stop! That is enough now!
Yeterli: enough when it is like a quantity. Maybe "süfficient" is the best translation into English.
e.g. -Türkçeniz iyi mi? Is your Turkish good?
-Yeterli. It is good enough
money = para
I have money= param var.
I have enough money = yeterli param var
I will have enough money = yeterli param olacak.
So we put the 2 together:
I hope I'll have enough money:
Yeterli param olacak, inşallah
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 09:43 pm |
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Quoting MarioninTurkey: Yeter: enough! Like stop! That is enough now!
Yeterli: enough when it is like a quantity. Maybe "süfficient" is the best translation into English. |
So it is yeter-li - "with enough" to take a very literal translation?
Quoting MarioninTurkey: I have enough money = yeterli param var
I will have enough money = yeterli param olacak. |
"olacak" always confuses me when I see it 
I don't understand why because as soon as it is explained again it all comes back and makes perfect sense. I need to practice more often and spend more time in Turkia!!!
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 10:03 pm |
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Quoting bod: Onları dikmemişim, onlar kendiliğinden büyüdüler! |
I loved this text. I guess you want us to make amendments (??? I am nervous of stepping on toes ....Is this OK??? 'cos I like it when people correct my Turkish 'cos then I learn)
-miş tense is for things you don't know directly yourself, but someone has told you or you surmise.
So: unless there is a chance you were smashed out of your head the day you planted these gorgeous blackberries .... you know that you didn't plant them.
What is the surprising thing is that they seem to have grown themselves (i.e. appear to have done so without your direct knowledge).
It would be better to say:
Onları dikmedim, onlar kendiliğinden büyümüşler!
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 10:19 pm |
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Quoting MarioninTurkey: Quoting bod: Onları dikmemişim, onlar kendiliğinden büyüdüler! |
I loved this text. |
Glad to have entertained 
Quoting MarioninTurkey: I guess you want us to make amendments (??? I am nervous of stepping on toes ....Is this OK??? 'cos I like it when people correct my Turkish 'cos then I learn) |
Of course - I would be highly disappointed if you didn't!!!
Quoting MarioninTurkey: -miş tense is for things you don't know directly yourself, but someone has told you or you surmise. |
I deliberated over using -miş- for a long time and trawled through the dictionaries trying to find suitable words.....I finally decided to include the -miş- tense because I recall being told that where multiple verbs occur is a sentence they should be in different tenses!
Quoting MarioninTurkey: What is the surprising thing is that they seem to have grown themselves (i.e. appear to have done so without your direct knowledge). |
I was trying to say that they had grown all by themselves (i.e. without any input or intervention from me).
Quoting MarioninTurkey: It would be better to say:
Onları dikmedim, onlar kendiliğinden büyümüşler! |
Çok sağol - buna çalışıyorum.
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