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10.       TheresaJana
163 posts
 09 Dec 2008 Tue 07:44 pm

Thank You,  MarioninTurkey {#lang_emotions_flowers}

 

I did ´sense´ that I was not completely correct in those EXACT areas that you corrected!  I´m so glad for your clarifications and corrections

 

 

11.       Audrey
19 posts
 10 Dec 2008 Wed 12:04 am

I´d translate it as: The food is good (good food is made) in the restaurant where Emin and Arzu went.

Am I wrong ?

12.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 10 Dec 2008 Wed 10:17 am

 

Quoting Audrey

I´d translate it as: The food is good (good food is made) in the restaurant where Emin and Arzu went.

Am I wrong ?

 

 No Audrey, you are not wrong. Traslation is an art not a science!

 

See post 7 above:

Great food is made at the restaurant that Emin Bey and Arzu Haným went to.

 

You just used a different synonym for güzel (English has more words than Turkish).

Also, making a free translation so the English flows better, you switched "good food is made" to become "the food is good".

You also managed not to end the sentence with a preposition, so get full marks for English grammar!!!!!!

 

In actual fact, I would probably have said "good food is served in the restaurant ...." to make it flow in English whilst keeping the -ýlmaktadýr construction, but as the original Q was about what is yapýlmaktadýr I kept "is made" so as not to confuse the Q further!

 

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