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turkish sentence order
1.       alexxxia
121 posts
 19 Aug 2008 Tue 07:08 pm

Can anybody explain how to make the turkish sentence? well, I know that rule "subject+object+verb", but I still don´t understand how to make the sentence.

2.       sara-dk
643 posts
 19 Aug 2008 Tue 10:41 pm

 

Quoting alexxxia

Can anybody explain how to make the turkish sentence? well, I know that rule "subject+object+verb", but I still don´t understand how to make the sentence.

 

 Yeah, me too... Still get a little confused... So it would be nice to have it explained in an other way!

3.       sonunda
5004 posts
 19 Aug 2008 Tue 10:50 pm

 

Quoting sara-dk

 Yeah, me too... Still get a little confused... So it would be nice to have it explained in an other way!

 

 I can´t explain it but I can give some examples.

 

English     I´m going to the shop.

Turkish     To the shop I´m going.(verb comes last)

 

 

English   I love you

Turkish   You I love  (verb comes last)

 

 

English  I want to see you

Turkish  You to see I want

 

I still think of the English and turn it around but it´s getting easier.

 

Any help?

4.       sara-dk
643 posts
 19 Aug 2008 Tue 10:55 pm

Aaah.... Yeah it helped with the examples!! Nice!!

5.       alexxxia
121 posts
 19 Aug 2008 Tue 10:56 pm

Thank you, sonunda so much

and how to construct longer sentences with adjectives and so on?

6.       sonunda
5004 posts
 19 Aug 2008 Tue 11:09 pm

 

Quoting alexxxia

Thank you, sonunda so much

and how to construct longer sentences with adjectives and so on?

 

 Adjectives go before the noun they describe as in English.

 

Another example taken from a recent translation

E   I would give anything to be there with you.

T   There with you to be anything I would give.

 

7.       si++
3785 posts
 21 Aug 2008 Thu 07:23 am

 

Quoting sonunda

Adjectives go before the noun they describe as in English.

 

 

More generally we can say the modifiers come before the modified. This is a very simple rule to remember and there is no exception to this rule in Turkish.

 

Examples:

iyi adam = a good man (adjective modifies noun)

çok güzel = very beautiful (çok as an adverb modifies güzel adjective)

iyi bilir = he knows well (iyi as an adverb modifies bilir verb)

yarın gireceğim sınav = the exam  which  I am  going  to  take  tomorrow (yarın gireceğim as an adjective clause modifies sınav)

yolda koşarken gördüm = I saw him jogging on the road (yolda koşarken as an adverbial clause modfies gördüm verb)

 

etc.

 

 

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