Hi I translated one of my favourite songs during a free period at school (yes i always take my dictionary with me ), anyone here willing to take a look at it and tell me if i understood it correct?

The *-marked sentences, have questions from me below.


Mevsim rüzgarları ne zaman eserse
Always when the season winds blow,

O zaman hatırlarım
At those times I remember

Çocukluk rüyalarım
My childish dreams

Şeytan uçurtmalarım
My devilish paperkites

Öper beni annem yanaklarımdan
My mother used to kiss me on my cheeks

Güzel bir rüyada
In a beautiful dream

Sanki sevdiklerim hayattalarken hâlâ
As if the ones I loved are still alive *

Akşama doğru azalırsa yağmur
When the rain fades (becomes less) right at the night

Kız kulesi ve adalar
The maiden tower and the Islands,

Ah burda olsan çok güzel hâlâ
Oh if only you were here, it's beautiful, still

İstanbul'da sonbahar
Autumn in Istanbul


Her zaman kolay değil
It's not always easy

Sevmeden sevişmek
To make love from not loving **

Tanımak bir vücudu
To get to know a body

Yavaşca öğrenmek
To slowly learn

Alışmak ve kaybetmek
To get used and (then?) to lose

İstanbul bugün yorgun
Istanbul is tired today

Ãœzgün ve yaşlanmış
She is sad and has grown old

Biraz kilo almış
She gained a few kilograms

Ağlamış yine
And she cried, again

Rimelleri akıyor
Her mascara is running


* Hayattalarken: couldn't find it in the dictionary. Translated it as 'the ones that are alive'.. Because i saw:
-ta = in
-lar = they, at least plural
-ken = situation with 'when'
'When they are in life' = alive???
How is that word constructed, and how to translate properly?

** Sevmeden: looks more like: from loving.. But as it says: it's not always easy.. 'from loving' would be weird.. as.. to make love while loving is really easy So i made it negative, just to match the words. But what kind of word is 'sevmeden'??

Thanks!

well done
"Sevmeden sevişmek" means "making love witout loving"

Mevsim rüzgarları ne zaman eserse
Whenever the season winds blow

Çocukluk rüyalarım
My childhood dreams

Şeytan uçurtmalarım***
My paperkites

Öper beni annem yanaklarımdan
My mother kisses me by my cheeks

Kız kulesi ve adalar
The Maiden's Tower and the islands

Ah burda olsan... Çok güzel hâlâ İstanbul'da sonbahar.
Oh if only you were here. In Istanbul, autumn is still beautiful.

Her zaman kolay değil sevmeden sevişmek.
It's not always easy to make love without being in love.

* Hayattalarken: when they were alive

** Sevmeden: without loving. -me is negative suffix here.

*** The basic paper kites are called "şeytan uçurtması".


Maiden's Tower (in Istanbul)

esther you are so great
appreciate you..well done kız

diğer çevirilerini de bekliyoruz...çalış devam et :=)

Yes your translation was well done. Congratulations. -ken suffix adds the meaning 'while', 'when' or 'as'. It's used with verbs and with adjectives.

giderken : as I was going
gelirken : when I was coming

Kitap okurken müzik dinliyorum.
I'm listening to music while I'm reading books.

Hava çok sıcakken dışarıda dolaşmayı sevmiyorum.
I don't like being outdors when the weather is too hot.

Aşka yürek gerek, i listened that song during the same free period.. and i thought it might be translated as:

It takes guts to love

(i couldn't hear/understand the rest of the song tho)

So can we say that.. gerek, can be translated with 'it takes' as well as with 'its necessary'?
So the song 'it takes two baby, me and you baby, it just takes two' could that be like:

iki gerek, bebeğim, sen ve ben bebeğim, sadece iki gerek.

??

Also, two songs of Gülşen (is her name with this ş or a normal s?), passed on my ipod.. tried to translate their titles but couldn't understand both of them:

en nazar değmesin
You're not worth a look?????

ya tutarsa
What kind of tense, from what verb, and how does YA translate?

Thanks again

I can't help with the last artist you mentioned. They make me kind of nervous because the terrible way using the language. I wish this corruption in Turkish pop music would have an end. Teoman was OK though.

yes deli_kizin you are perfect. good translation

hayalperest
O kadar haklısın ki
Dayanamıyorum buna
O kadar güzelsin ki
Çok çirkin kaldım yanında

Korkum yaralanman hayatta
O kadar yalnızsın ki
Dayanamıyorum buna
O kadar sıcaksın ki

Çok soğuk kaldım yanında
Korkum yaralanman hayatta
Hayalperestsin, güzel hayaller peşinde
Çok gençsin, yanlış insanlar kalbinde

Hayalperestsin, güzel hayaller peşinde
Çok gençsin, çok gerçeksin
Bu yüzden çok güzelsin

Can someone correct my translation of Hayalperest?

Korkum yaralanman hayatta

I fear that you will be hurt (in your life)

A very special friend sent this song to me, and it is very close to my heart. I listen to it all the time to remember that person. They really are beautiful lyrics.

Let me see if I understood this correct. I copied your PM to the forum, AlphaF, if you don't mind.. as other readers might be interested in this grammar-thingy as well

So can we say it like this.. (though it is a bit weird example)

Gitmem lazım » I need to go
Yaralanmam lazım » I need to get wounded
Gitmen lazım » You have to go
Yaralanman lazım » You need to get wounded

So..the word YARALANMAN is comparable to the 'gitmem' word in the constructions.. like:

Yaralanman = Your getting wounded
Gitmem = My going

If i understood it well this way, with this weird comparison then i understood the construction/usage of the word yaralanman

Can someone also explain the word 'peşinde'?

Anyone around to explain what i asked in the post above?

I will be eternally grateful

Yes you understood it correct. Yaralanman is a verbal noun. It is a noun derived from the verb yaralanmak by dropping the -mak suffix and adding the -ma verbal noun suffix.
Here is a smillar example:
gitmek > git > git + me + n
-me is verbal noun suffix and -n is possessive suffix.

(Senin) Gitmeni hiç istemiyorum.
I don't want you to go.

-i istemek (takes accusative)

Peşinde means "being after something".

Try seslisözlük. That entry isnt listed in our dictionary.
http://www.seslisozluk.com/?word=pe%FEinde

Ah ok thank you very much! I'm still not completely into the -verbal noun- (should try to remember that word), but at least i understood it a bit better now.

In the 'I don't want you to go' sentence.. gitmeni.. is that 'i' there because of the verb -istemek-?

So peşinde isn't from a verb, but just a word

Ohh sorry i didnt read carefully :S You already explained it. I'm also not really focussed on this. I'm sorry!