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1.       bod
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 13 Jun 2006 Tue 06:12 pm

Yarın, perşembe ve cuma parayı kazanma çalışmalıyacağım.
Bu çünkü çok Türkçe öğrenmeyebileceğim


Tommow, Thursday and Friday I will have to work to earn money.
Because of this I will not be able to learn much Turkish

2.       Kadir37
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 13 Jun 2006 Tue 06:19 pm

3.       bod
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 13 Jun 2006 Tue 06:39 pm

Quoting Kadir37:

Yarın, Perşembe ve Cuma günü para kazanmak için çalışmak zorundayım.



I assume zorundayım is short for zorunda kalmak - to be left with no choice.

Why is using mastar hali preferable to using the -meli- suffix???

I think (if I understand your sentence correctly) that lazım would be better than zorundayım because I do have a choice.....

4.       caliptrix
3055 posts
 13 Jun 2006 Tue 06:44 pm

have to= zorunda olmak!
I have to go! Gitmek zorundayım!

5.       bod
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 13 Jun 2006 Tue 06:49 pm

Quoting caliptrix:

have to= zorunda olmak!
I have to go! Gitmek zorundayım!



Ah yes that makes sense......slowly :-S

In what way does gitmek zorundayım differ from gitmeliyim ???

6.       caliptrix
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 13 Jun 2006 Tue 06:51 pm

not much deffer i think.
by the way, "zorundayım" seems that the obligatory comes from an authority like state or a business or your boss etc.

7.       bod
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 13 Jun 2006 Tue 06:54 pm

Quoting caliptrix:

by the way, "zorundayım" seems that the obligatory comes from an authority like state or a business or your boss etc.



In that case -meli- is probably a better choice......
I am my own boss so nobody is forcing me to work tommorrow!

I nearly said something like:
yarın çalışmak istiyorum
But I wanted to practice using the verbal noun suffix

8.       bod
5999 posts
 13 Jun 2006 Tue 06:57 pm

Quoting Kadir37:

I prefer to say "Bu yüzden üç gün Türkçe çalışamayacağım."



Ah yes - I forgot that -abıl- takes a different form when used with the future tense

What does yüzden mean here?

9.       caliptrix
3055 posts
 13 Jun 2006 Tue 07:04 pm

bu yüzden: because of this/for this reason

10.       bod
5999 posts
 13 Jun 2006 Tue 07:22 pm

Quoting caliptrix:

bu yüzden: because of this/for this reason



Teşekklür ederim - daha kelimeler öğrendim

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