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How do you translate to be
1.       Philio
10 posts
 18 Aug 2005 Thu 02:57 pm

How do you translate the to be state without additional verbs ?

e.g:
Don't be shy
Be carefull
Be smart

Thanks

2.       sht99
0 posts
 18 Aug 2005 Thu 04:38 pm

Don't be shy = Utanma
Be carefull = Dikktli ol!
Be smart = Akıllı ol!

3.       Lyndie
968 posts
 19 Aug 2005 Fri 12:44 am

Philio - this was a good question and a good answer, thank you. sometimes its hard to think of good questions for grammar.

Let's see more of this - it was very helpful I hate 'olmak' I get in such a muddle with it.

:-S :-S :-S

4.       Philio
10 posts
 19 Aug 2005 Fri 01:00 am

So don't be carefull would then be
Dikktli olmu!
or does the noun takes the negative suffix ?

Thanks

5.       admin
758 posts
 19 Aug 2005 Fri 02:34 am

For Don't be careful, you can say Dikkatli olma. The verb negative is -me and it can change only to -ma.

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