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Necessity in the past
1.       Abla
3648 posts
 01 Jul 2011 Fri 07:10 pm

 I am confused about the past necessitative. First of all, there seem to be two tense signs in the same word:

Gitmeliydim.

Do -meli- and -di- refer to the same situation or has one of them something to do with the truth of the situation? I mean is it translated

1. ´I had to go´ or

2. ´I must have gone´?

 

2.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 01 Jul 2011 Fri 11:47 pm

 

Quoting Abla

 I am confused about the past necessitative. First of all, there seem to be two tense signs in the same word:

Gitmeliydim.

Do -meli- and -di- refer to the same situation or has one of them something to do with the truth of the situation? I mean is it translated

1. ´I had to go´ or

2. ´I must have gone´?

 

Both of them are possible.

 

3.       Mavili
236 posts
 02 Jul 2011 Sat 04:52 am

 

Quoting gokuyum

 

Both of them are possible.

 

 

Is it the same context as the -meli/-malı used for "gereklik"?  örn; inanmalısın

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