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30.       etimologist
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 20 Aug 2009 Thu 04:44 pm

 yes evet can be plural

oylamada, evetler hayýrlardan fazlaydý means ya was greater than nay in the election.

senin bu evetlerinden býktým. means I have been bored from your Yes´es . He says a lot of yes answers

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I was recently listen to a Turkish radio programme - not understanding it but listening to it!!! I was sure that I heard the word "evetler" a few times which seems to be the plural of "evet". Doing a google search suggests that it is a word in reasonably common usage but I can´t work it out from any of the texts I can find What does it mean and when and where might it be used??? It is just a more polite way of saying "yes"?

 

 

31.       iLoVetHaTx3
53 posts
 20 Aug 2009 Thu 05:38 pm

We have the plural for yes and no in English also. I use it often , as a native speaker, and so do many of my friends, etc. Like for example in a poll we could say, there are more ´yeses´ than ´no´s´ or ´there are alot of yeses to this question´. It´s probably not gramatically correct but we use it often so it could be the same in Turkish, however, I´m not sure.

 

Also, the few hundred words in the vocab is something I´ve noticed also. <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'> Talking in turkish with people my age (the university youth, mainly.) I find it very confusing because alot of the sentences they make are totally incorrect, and hard for me to understand as a learner because in english, I would use a different word, but in Turkish they keep using the same words for different meanings. Just something I´ve picked up in the couple months I´ve been trying to speak turkish. (:

32.       sonunda
5004 posts
 20 Aug 2009 Thu 06:13 pm

According to the Oxford English Dictionary-The usual plural of no is noes.

(and I would spell the plural of yes ´yesses´ but ´yeses´ is also correct.)

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