I will be travelling to Izmir soon. I need some Turkish help.

Are these correct?

Who is right? Kim doğru?

Is Turkey safe now? Şimdi Türkiye güvenli?

As a learner...

Who is right? Kim doğru? <- looks fine to me

Is Turkey safe now? Şimdi Türkiye güvenli? <- Do you mean "Is it safe now in Turkey?" ? In this case, I would try with something like: "Şimdi Türkiye´de güvenli mi", though not sure if "tehlikesiz" or some other work wouldn´t be better here...

Just my try, but I think it will be better to wait for Turkish native speaker or someone more advanced in Turkish.

We dont say "It is safe in Turkey" tomac. We say "Turkey is safe."

So when it is a question, it is like this. "Türkiye güvenli mi?"

Thank you again for your help, Gokuyum!

Do you use ´to need´ in Turkish a lot?For example for ´I need to eat´, can we say ´yemek gerekiyorum´?How can we say: I need to go there?

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There is of course ihtiyaç olmak but I guess it does not exactly love infinitive complements. So we return to -MALI, LAZIM AND GEREK- plus a couple of peripheric expressions I guess.

Look what scalpel writes about it here, post 14:

http://www.turkishclass.com/sfa/turkce/forumTitle_52276_2

Thanks I was wonder about subjects. Is this OK: "I understand him" "Onu anlıyorum"

Yes.

Thanks. This is a BIG help.

How about "I ate those". Is it "Bunları yedim"

That´s correct. And you can even say "Şunları/Onları yedim" to make it better.

Thanks, I got mixed up, I guess I said more like ´these´.

I understand the word order can be changed with subjects, unlike in English.

Can I say for "Sam likes Lisa" "Sam Lisayi seviyor".

For "Lisa Likes Sam" "Seviyor Lisa Samı"

Sam likes Lisa:

Sam Lisa´yı seviyor

Sam seviyor Lisa´yı

Seviyor Sam Lisa´yı

Same for Lisa

If I am talking to someone, do we need ´mi´ for the question.

For example in conversation for "everyday?" can I say "her gün?" or must I say "her gün mü?".

yes, you must add ´mi´ question suffix for yes/no type questions.

You can not say "şunları yedim".

When you use "şu", you should be pointing at the object you are talking about. You obviously can not point at objects you have already eaten.

If there are pictures of the foods, you can point them on the photo

There is one more but I don´t want to mention the other possibility

Bu mesajını "Kargalar Gülüyor" !a alabilirmiyim ?

O zaman fotoğrafları yedin zannederler, akıllım !

How about "Are you working in the garden today?"

Is this OK? "Bugün bahçede çalışıyor musunuz?"

I have another one. Does Sam like döner?

Is it: Sam döneri seviyor mu?

I want to make sure that I understand then main noun forms. Please have a look.

I am going to Izmir. Izmir´e gidyorum.

I came from your house. Evinden geldim.

The child is lying on the bed. Çoçuk yatakdayı yatıyor.

Sam works with my friend. Arkadaşımla Samı çalışıyor.

The child is lying on the bed. Çoçuk yatakta yatıyor.

Sam works with my friend. Sam arkadaşımla (beraber) çalışıyor.

thankyou lana

Actually we don´t say "Kim doğru?" We say "Kim haklı?" or "Kim doğru söylüyor?"

Finally here, it´s awesome!It seems that people often use past tense for like. For example, I was asked ´Türkiye sevdiniz?´. Just that ın English it seemed unusual since I am still here. Is that common? Is that done with other verbs? Somone said to me ´babaları´ when introducing the father of the children. I got confused thinking baba-lar-ı. So I ask why they used plural for hım? HA! Of course then they explained it means ´their father´ which makes sense. But then I thought about this, couldn´t this also mean ´the fathers´? How do you tell - by the context? Are there other examples where endings can lead to ambiguity? ThankyouDenis Hosdil

Yes. babaları is ambiguous. Funny that you realized it in a real situation. LAR here can mean that

- the owners are many

- the owned are many OR

- both the owners and the owned are many (because you cannot attach two LAR´s in the same word).

Another reason for ambiguity is the similarity in appearance between forms with 2nd person possessive suffix and with the pronominal -n- which is added between the 3rd person (sg and pl) possessive suffix and the case marking:

                   evinde > ev + i + n + de ´in his house´

                   evinde > ev + in + de ´in your house´

So, how many possible meanings does evlerinde have?

evinde > ev + i + n + de ´in his house´ evinde > ev + in + de ´in your house´ So, how many possible meanings does evlerinde have?

ev-ler-i-nde - in his houses

ev-ler-in-de - in your houses

ev-leri-nde - in thier house

Any others? Are they pronouned differently?

A few more translations, if possible.

How late are you open until?

This is a good time to walk.

I read about a 4th possıbılıty:ev-(ler)-leri-nde - in their housesBecause you can´t write lerleri. Is this true?

Yes you cant write "lerleri"

 Quoting gokuyum    Yes you cant write "lerleri"  I´m not dısagreeıng as I am a begınner but here ıs where I got that from: http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/possadj.htm It seems that "their pears" should be "armutlarları", but suffixes ending in -lar are never doubled, therefore the context should make clear the singularity or plurality of the noun. Are they wrong or I mısunderstood?

Yes. To the point.

I guess I have an explanation:

onların ev-i : their home

This -i is possesive suffix for third person singular (o).

But as you can see we can use it for third person plural (onlar) too

So I think maybe we should think that -lar is plural suffix and -ı is possive suffix (for third person singular) when we use "ları" for more than one possession. That way maybe we can explain why we dont say "larlari".

Note: I am not sure