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10.       MarioninTurkey
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 04 Aug 2011 Thu 12:16 pm

 

Quoting Abla

Yes, I understand it´s seen like some kind of puzzle where different combinations create different meanings. Analyzing the meaning of a single verb form beginning from the last bricks doesn´t sound impossible.

What in my level confuses me the most is the difference between

V + sa and

V + tense mark (especially simple present which means habitual action) + sa.

I studied some examples yesterday and noticed that the difference is not very strict. As the matter of fact my word "counter-reality" may be too strong to describe V + sa. It´s more about hypothetical situations whose probability the speaker is evaluating when he is making these choises.

A couple of examples:

1. Fazla içersen sarhoş olursun. (You might go and do that but you know the consequenses.)

2. Her ne zaman çok kahve içsem uyuyamam. (That´s why I don´t.)

and

1. Her ne zaman İstanbul´a gelirsen bizi ziyaret edebilirsin. (I´m being hopeful, of course you will come one day.)

2. Her ne zaman Bursa´ya gitsek dağa tırmanırız. (I wouldn´t be so sure it will ever happen.)

Is there any idea in my interpretations?

 

 

 

 Number 2 of the 1st set and both of the second set are more like "whenever".

çok kahve içsem uyuyamayacağım: If I drink lot´s of coffee I won´t be able to sleep

(I am talking about drinking coffee now and its result on my being able to sleep later)

Her ne zaman çok kahve içsem uyuyamam: whenever I drink lots of coffee I can´t sleep

(this is a general rule: it applied to me in the past and will apply now and in the future I think)

 

The Turkish is different in each case, just as the English is different

 

11.       Abla
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 04 Aug 2011 Thu 12:36 pm

Yes, MarioninTurkey, I guess it´s difficult to see behind this her ne zaman here. I had this assumption about the simple present case that it describes a situation which is more real or probable than the one expressed with dilek-şart. But I will pay more attention to these cases now (and maybe be back with more brilliant examples).

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