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vowels..

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sonunda
5004 posts

14 Dec 2009 Mon 09:32 pm

Quoting ReyhanL

There isnt any ´haavalanı´ but ´ havaalanı´

I was just going to say that!

This is an example of a composite noun (two words joined together) which are exceptions to the ´no two vowels together´ rule. (hava alani)

Edited (12/14/2009) by sonunda

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ReyhanL
1961 posts

14 Dec 2009 Mon 09:36 pm

Quoting ally81

And maalesef - meaning - unfortunately

Oh and be careful of words like meşgul as if you look carefully you´ll see that it´s letters aren´t following vowel harmony, and meşgul tripped me up once before when adding a suffix

here ---> T-E lutfen

You can find about ´meşgul´ at lesson 10 from TYT.

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Trudy
7887 posts

14 Dec 2009 Mon 09:43 pm

Quoting ReyhanL

There isnt any ´haavalanı´ but ´ havaalanı´

Oops! Sorry.

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ReyhanL
1961 posts

14 Dec 2009 Mon 09:44 pm

Type mistake i think...

Edited (12/14/2009) by ReyhanL [type mistake for me too :)]

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ballur
2 posts

23 Dec 2009 Wed 03:31 am

turkish contains alot of arabic words

and most of words that contains two vowels are arabic

like: tabii, maalesef, saat, also most of worde that dosn´t conformed with

the vowel harmony aren´t turkish..

I can count the common words in both languages if you want

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ReyhanL
1961 posts

23 Dec 2009 Wed 08:52 am

Quoting ballur

I can count the common words in both languages if you want

Please Smile

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Uzun_Hava
449 posts

23 Dec 2009 Wed 01:08 pm

Quoting ReyhanL

Please Smile

I still have trouble keeping the Arab and Farca words in my head because they don´t "connect" with the Turkish words. e.g "yani" has nothing to do with yanmak, yaninda, yan yana, etc///

Saklamak and Sakınmak are related, but sakin is totally different. (İt ıs the dot on the İ