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If clause
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 11:23 am |
I was learning If clause (type 3 unrealistic) -as they call it in Merhaba Turkish site- i have some questions please:
Seni görseydim, selam verirdim
1. Why the buffer "y" is used here?
2. Does "ir" refers to present simple tense and also "dim" for past simpletense? And if so, why it is not only "dim" or even "miş"?
Thanks in advance
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 11:35 am |
I was learning If clause (type 3 unrealistic) -as they call it in Merhaba Turkish site- i have some questions please:
Seni görseydim, selam verirdim
1. Why the buffer "y" is used here?
2. Does "ir" refers to present simple tense and also "dim" for past simpletense? And if so, why it is not only "dim" or even "miş"?
Thanks in advance
1) There is a buffer letter there because there is an imaginary "i" before "di": "idi" We don´t pronounce it anymore but we still use the buffer letter.
2)"-ir"refers to present simple tense and "-di" refers to past simple tense. "m" after "-di" is personal ending for "I". So you can understand first person singular does the action. "irdi" together gives "would" meaning.
Edited (10/22/2012) by gokuyum
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 11:38 am |
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Edited (10/22/2012) by gokuyum
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 11:59 am |
2)"-ir"refers to present simple tense and "-di" refers to past simple tense. "m" after "-di" is personal ending for "I". So you can understand first person singular does the action. "irdi" together gives "would" meaning.
Ah thanks gokuyum "irdi" is a new lesson for me to know.
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 12:05 pm |
1) There is a buffer letter there because there is an imaginative "i" before "di": "idi" We don´t pronounce it anymore but we still use the buffer letter.
Sorry there is something i couldn´t understand here.
Does the imaginary "i" is always with the "di" past tense or only with if clause.
Meaning that when i say "I slept" would it be "uyudum" or "uyuydum"
Thanks again
Edited (10/22/2012) by HaNNo
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 12:15 pm |
Sorry there is something i couldn´t understand here.
Does the imaginary "i" is always with the "di" past tense or only with if clause.
Meaning that when i say "I ran" would it be "yürüdüm" or "yürüydüm"
Thanks again
It seems it happens only with if clause. Interesting. But why? I will search.
It doesnt happen only with if clause. It happens with -meli (necessity) gelmeliydi.
-a (will) geleydi.
Edited (10/22/2012) by gokuyum
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 12:27 pm |
I think the explanation is here:
When tense/aspect/modality markers co-occur they appear in the order given below (Göksel – Kerslake). Copular markers (group 4) are composite. They consist of the copula -(y)- < *-i- and the grammatical marker –DI, -mIş or –sA. Copular markers attach to
1. nouns
2. verbs that contain one of the tense/aspect/modality suffixes in group 3
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-(y)A ‘possibility’
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-(y)Abil ‘possibility’
-(y)Iver ‘non-premeditative’
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-DI ‘perfective’
-mIş ‘perfective, evidential’
-sA ‘conditional’
-(A/I)r/-z ‘aorist’
-(y)Acak ‘future’
-(I)yor ‘imperfective’
-mAlI ‘obligative’
-mAktA ‘imperfective’
-(y)A ‘optative’
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Copular markers:
-(y)DI ‘past copula’
-(y)mIş ‘evidential copula’
-(y)sA ‘conditional copula’
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-Dir ‘generalizing modality’
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So, in görseydim there is a suffix -sA- from group 3. That is why in further affixation it is treated like it was a noun and the copula -(y)DI- - buffer included - is used with it.
The situation would be the same in gördüysem btw - -DI- from group 3 and -(y)se- from copular markers.
I have understood the buffer is a relic from the old *er- stem, so no wonder.
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 12:30 pm |
I think the explanation is here:
When tense/aspect/modality markers co-occur they appear in the order given below (Göksel – Kerslake). Copular markers (group 4) are composite. They consist of the copula -(y)- < *-i- and the grammatical marker –DI, -mIş or –sA. Copular markers attach to
1. nouns
2. verbs that contain one of the tense/aspect/modality suffixes in group 3
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-(y)A ‘possibility’
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-(y)Abil ‘possibility’
-(y)Iver ‘non-premeditative’
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-DI ‘perfective’
-mIş ‘perfective, evidential’
-sA ‘conditional’
-(A/I)r/-z ‘aorist’
-(y)Acak ‘future’
-(I)yor ‘imperfective’
-mAlI ‘obligative’
-mAktA ‘imperfective’
-(y)A ‘optative’
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Copular markers:
-(y)DI ‘past copula’
-(y)mIş ‘evidential copula’
-(y)sA ‘conditional copula’
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-Dir ‘generalizing modality’
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So, in görseydim there is a suffix -sA- from group 3. That is why in further affixation it is treated like it was a noun and the copula -(y)DI- - buffer included - is used with it.
The situation would be the same in gördüysem btw - -DI- from group 3 and -(y)se- from copular markers.
I have understood the buffer is a relic from the old *er- stem, so no wonder.
Thank you abla. You saved me.
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 12:36 pm |
Simply there are two modes in Turkish:
1-Haber kipleri (tenses) -yor,-ir,-di,-miş,-ecek
2- Dilek kipleri (wish modes) -sin,-iniz,-se, -e, -meli We call these wish modes because they don´t occur in time.We just imagine them.
If these suffixes come after one another and if two vowels come together we put y between them.
Edited (10/22/2012) by gokuyum
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22 Oct 2012 Mon 12:56 pm |
WoooW i´m glad my question is not useless or expresses stupidity
Your answers guys are really helpful and to the point. Thanks
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