When I use the on-line dictionary a word may have many translations, for example "bırakmak".
There is a long list of meanings...below I've copied the first few.
1. /ı, da/ to leave (something, someone) (in) (a place); /ı, a/ to leave (someone, something) with (someone), leave (someone, something) in the care of (someone).
2. /ı, a/ to leave, put (something, someone) on or in (a place).
3. /ı/ to let go of, stop holding: Beni bırak! Let go of me!
4. /ı/ to leave, abandon, desert.

My question is this..
What do the "/ı, da/" mean? (I told you it was a stupid question).
If I wanted to say someone was leaving someone would I add the "da" at the end of the word and remove the "mak" like this.... "bırakda"??

THANKS in advance for explaining this to me.

No questions are stupid if they help you learn!
The i or da refer to the suffixes taken by the object of the verb but I will leave it to the true grammarians to explain fully!

Probably you think you show your lowliness. But you should remember that there are many questions like this. If you say this is a stupidity, it sounds like you say these learners are stupid. For that reason, just try to be normal please.

PS My teachers always used to say "No question is a stupid question. If you are wondering about it, there are probably at least 2 or 3 other students thinking the same thing, but who don't have the courage you have to ask the question"

And what's that Turkish proverb? - Bilmemek ayıp değil, oğrenmemek (or sometimes 'sormamak') ayıp.

I'm glad you asked that question, I was wondering that too, just never got around to asking .... Thanks for that

I'm glad it helped someone else too.... have a good day.

Hi all

Hope you don't mind me learning from your thread

Marion would you mind explaining why one would not say


çantamı annemLE bıraktım


I am easily confused by the usage of endings!

Thank you

Sorry, the only answer I can give is that "it just is like that": işte.

The second part of number 1 is:

/ı, a/ to leave (someone, something) with (someone), leave (someone, something) in the care of (someone).

i.e. in English we say "leave with"; in Turkish it is "leave to" - ona bırakmak

This is the hardest thing with another language. "They just say it differently". I find that most of the mistakes I make in Turkish are using the wrong ending in cases such as this!

They taught us 'A question can never be stupid, an answer has the possibility to be stupid however'

Thanks for the answers Marion and Longetti.x

sorry, longinotti

when I was teaching .. I used to tell my students .. "the only stupid question .. is the question that was not asked" meaning .. no questions are stupid if they help your learn ..