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10.       tamikidakika
1346 posts
 19 Mar 2009 Thu 06:49 pm

 

Quoting Daydreamer

I can´t imagine the sentence looking any different as "repair" has to be in subordinate clause. You might want to say He´s repairing the AC but then there´d be no notion of his coming. Perhaps our natives could help? Anyone?

 

sure DDCool

 

In Turkish, the stressed word in a sentence is usually the one just before the predicate.

 

in this case, the predicate is "geliyor".

 

if you say

 

O, arabayla oteldeki klimayi onarmaya geliyor

 

the stressed word is "repair"

 

if you say

 

O, oteldeki klimayi onarmaya arabayla geliyor.

 

the stressed word is "car".

 

If you say

 

arabayla oteldeki klimayi onarmaya o geliyor

 

the stressed word is "he"

 

 

 

 

btw. you don`t need to use the "o" in the sentence.

11.       dilliduduk
1551 posts
 19 Mar 2009 Thu 07:05 pm

 

Quoting lady in red

 

 You left the hotel bit out DD - I think that would be - O, otelin klimasýný onarmak için, arabayla geliyor

 

 

Hey, just a small addition

12.       Henry
2604 posts
 22 Mar 2009 Sun 11:15 am

Hi Ian, as a fellow learner I will try to break down dilliduduk´s additional correction as I understand it.

O, otelin klimasýný onarmak için, arabayla geliyor

klima = air-conditioning

klimasý = the air-conditioning

otel = hotel

otelin = hotel´s .... (and what is being owned or possessed by the ´hotel´ needs the possessive suffix "i", and also a buffer letter as "clima" ends in a vowel)

otelin climasý = the hotel´s air-conditioning

(and to indicate it is an object in the sentence (what needs to be fixed), the additional "ni" suffix on the climasý then tells you that the hotel´s air-conditioning is what is to be fixed)

otelin klimasýný onarmak = to fix/repair the hotel´s air-conditioning 



Edited (3/22/2009) by Henry [few words added for clarification]

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