We don´t use accent on a´s anymore... according to Turkish Language Council... so hala is not wrong!!!

 Merih THAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKS

You have just saved me hundreds of hours when preparing power points for my lectures at Bahçeþehir University: it takes ages to put the hat on the a every time I write kar or karlýlýk so my students don´t get profit and snow confused!

I just checked the tdk website, and you are right. They do show hala with hats as meaning still. But they also give hala without hats meaning hala with hats. Maybe I need to paste it for this to make sense:

a. (ha´la) Babanýn kýz kardeþi, bibi.

Teyze.

(< Ar. hâlâ hâlâ

< Ar. hâle: Teyze; annenin kýz kardeþi. (Kemah, Merkez)

< Ar. hâla: hala; bk. ayrýca bibi

Hele, þimdilik

zf. (ha:lâ Þimdiye kadar, o zamana kadar, hâlen, henüz: “O zamanlar saðlam diþi söktürüp yerine altýn diþ taktýran, böylece güzelleþtiðine inanan insanlar hâlâ vardý.” -A. Kutlu.

 You are most welcome.  

Ooops what have I caused here! It´s been a while since I signed in my Turkish Class account...

Sorry Melike, you´re right, our translations are more or less the same. The part that doesn´t sound right at all is the nedeni part, which is in brackets anyway. I am sorry I didn´t consider what I said might have upset you. 

As for why nedeni is not right, object of the verb bilmek needs to take the accusative, so it should be nedenini bilmiyorum...

I am sorry again to have upset you. I didn´t mean to. Seems like you´re learning Turkish, and you´re doing a very good job.

Best wishes,

Sumru

 Are you sure?

http://www.tdk.gov.tr/TR/Genel/BelgeGoster.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFFAAF6AA849816B2EF4EC2F94D94121ECE

1Düzeltme işaretinin  kullanılacağı yerler aşağıda gösterilmiştir:

            1. Yazılışları bir, anlamları ve okunuşları ayrı olan kelimeleri ayırt etmek için, okunuşları uzun olan ünlülerin üzerine konur: adem (yokluk), âdem (insan); adet (sayı, âdet (gelenek, alışkanlık); alem (bayrak), âlem (dünya, evren); alim (her şeyi bilen), âlim (bilgin); aşık (eklem kemiği), âşık (vurgun, tutkun); hakim (hikmet sahibi), hâkim (yargıç; hal (pazar yeri), hâl (durum, vaziyet); hala (babanın kız kardeşi), hâlâ (henüz); şura (şu yer), şûra (danışma kurulu).

            ...

http://www.tdk.gov.tr/TR/Genel/BelgeGoster.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFFAAF6AA849816B2EF4EC2F94D94121ECE

Please, see 15th entry on the page of the following link,it is funny

http://sozluk.sourtimes.org/show.asp?t=%C5%9Fapkal%C4%B1%20a

 I just noticed now that 18th is even funnier. You should start to use â not to cause a misunderstanding.   

TDK is funny. some years ago they decided not to use the "^". So everyone got used to not using it. then they decided to use again since it causes a lot of confusions.