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26 Jan 2006 Thu 01:13 am |
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Yes, my sözlük says 'embrace' too  But it doesn't give the word 'hug' .. maybe that just doesn't exist the way we have it? In Dutch we say it like the english do.
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 01:14 am |
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Anyways i should go to bed now..any suggestions for a sweet (!!) sms to aşkım??
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 01:18 am |
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Both hugging and talking about hugging is not common among Turkish men.
When two Turkish men are greeting or when they are saying good-bye to each other they might touch cheek to cheek, (first with one side and then with the other side [I never do this by the way]) and afterwards they might hug and lap to each others shoulder. But again, this is not a proper hug. I mean you dont huge a man like you would hug a woman. Assuming a woman is crying or is very upset you hug her and she lets her head down on your shoulder and you hold her with her arms while cuddling and saying "it's OK sweety" or something like that, isn't it?
Anyway, when the men are huging it is just like pretending to hug you dont get too close I think. I'm not sure actually. I don't huge much. Maybe somebody more experienced than me could enlighten us.
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 12:40 pm |
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But surely even in Turkey, men and women hug and people hug their dogs.......
What would be the noun that describes "the" hug given by a man to a woman or "the hug" given by a person to his/her dog?
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 02:02 pm |
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Quoting bod: But surely even in Turkey, men and women hug and people hug their dogs.......
What would be the noun that describes "the" hug given by a man to a woman or "the hug" given by a person to his/her dog? |
Hmmm, don't think about this issue too much. It's just a detail, and don't get stuck in these kind of things, or your mind'll get too confused. As you progress in the language, you'll automatically feel the difference between close words. But you're not in this stage yet, because you have to come to a stage where you can read texts. I think now, it's better for you to focus on grammar, but not all the tenses. One by one.
Just know that
to hug: sarılmak
to hug someone: -e/a sarılmak
You hug someone when you want to show your love or want to give consolation to this person. Lovers can hug eachother all the time, but according to me friends or family members hug (sarılmak) eachother mostly to give courage or consolation, or for a farewell. Sarılmak is an act that is a more emotional thing.
On the other side, for greetings kucaklaşmak or kucaklamak sounds better. And ofcourse when two male friends hugged eachother as a greeting, you can say: Kucaklaştılar.
It's even difficult for a native-speaker to say clearly the difference between. But it's just a feeling you get after a lot of practise, so don't worry about it too much.
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 02:04 pm |
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And the noun form for this verb is not used too much.
You can say kucaklaşma, or sarılma, sarılış as a noun.
But then it's more like "hugging"
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 02:08 pm |
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Quoting mltm: And the noun form for this verb is not used too much.
You can say kucaklaşma, or sarılma, sarılış as a noun.
But then it's more like "hugging" |
Yes - that is what I thought :-S
So how would you translate:
"The hug I gave my dog was too tight"
For such sentences you need to have a noun form for the hug.
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 02:13 pm |
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Quoting bod:
So how would you translate:
"The hug I gave my dog was too tight"
For such sentences you need to have a noun form for the hug. |
"Köpeğime sarılışım (or sarılmam) çok sıkıydı" would be the most literal. You can say it, but this one sounds ofcourse better:
Köpeğime çok sıkı sarıldım. (I hugged my dog very tightly)
It's not the same structure, but this is what sounds better.
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 02:28 pm |
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Is "sarılmam" conprised of:
sarıl-ma-m
verb stem - verbal noun suffix - first person singular
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 03:40 pm |
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this is a very interesting thread so far.. keep it going guys...
and bod, hugging dogs??? :S o dear.. whatever next.. kissing your goldfish?? haha
sorry, thats rather grim... im gonna heave now.. iyyh.. i hate fish... 
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26 Jan 2006 Thu 03:48 pm |
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Quoting miss_ceyda: this is a very interesting thread so far.. keep it going guys...
and bod, hugging dogs??? :S o dear.. whatever next.. kissing your goldfish?? haha
sorry, thats rather grim... im gonna heave now.. iyyh.. i hate fish... |
Hey! What's wrong with hugging a dog ya? I hug Manga (my dog) all the time! I never kissed my daughter's goldfish though. Well, maybe i would, if it was smelling a little better 
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