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Beginners question about \"anlamak\"
1.       Nixy
34 posts
 31 Oct 2012 Wed 03:23 pm

Why is "I don´t understand" translated as "anlamadım" and not "anlamıyorum"? I thought "anlamadım" would be the past tense?

Please explain, because this phrase is the first thing I should learn as a beginner.

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2.       Can33
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 31 Oct 2012 Wed 03:25 pm

 

Quoting Nixy

Why is "I don´t understand" translated as "anlamadım" and not "anlamıyorum"? I thought "anlamadım" would be the past tense?

Please explain, because this phrase is the first thing I should learn as a beginner.

 

"I don´t understand" ...Its translated anlamıyorum....

3.       Nixy
34 posts
 31 Oct 2012 Wed 03:34 pm

 

Quoting Can33

"I don´t understand" ...Its translated anlamıyorum....

 

Useful Turkish Words say "anlamadım"

http://www.turkishclass.com/turkish_lesson_109



Edited (10/31/2012) by Nixy [added link]

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4.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 31 Oct 2012 Wed 06:02 pm

 

Quoting Nixy

Why is "I don´t understand" translated as "anlamadım" and not "anlamıyorum"? I thought "anlamadım" would be the past tense?

Please explain, because this phrase is the first thing I should learn as a beginner.

"I don´t understand" means "Anlamıyorum". But we generally prefer to say "I didn´t understand" Anlamadım.

 

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5.       Nixy
34 posts
 01 Nov 2012 Thu 12:57 am

 

Quoting gokuyum

"I don´t understand" means "Anlamıyorum". But we generally prefer to say "I didn´t understand" Anlamadım.

 

Aha, so it sounds more natural for you to say: anlamadım. OK, then I understand and will use that form.

6.       erayay
1 posts
 02 Nov 2012 Fri 09:31 am

Hi Nixy,

You may use both forms "anlamadım" or "anlamıyorum" depending on the context.  If somebody said something to me which I didn´t understand,  I can say: "anlamadım", can you repeat? Since his sentence is finished, your understanding/or not understanding of it happened in the past. Hence, the past tense. As the other members said, we use "anlamadım" in most cases.

Anlamıyorum is used in situations that are considered to be never changing facts. For example: I never understand Math.

This guy always speaks so fast, I don´t understand him at all   etc.

There are more details and examples but I hope these might be helpful for the present.

 

erayay

"I´m a linguist and native Turkish speaker"

 



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7.       Nixy
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 04 Nov 2012 Sun 12:00 am

Thank you!

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