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Türkçe Konuşma
1.       bod
5999 posts
 05 Jul 2006 Wed 06:22 pm

Birkaç yavaş Türkçe konuşma dinleme başlamalıyım!

I need to start listening to some slow Turkish dialogues!

2.       fish
75 posts
 05 Jul 2006 Wed 06:44 pm

benim daha, anyone any suggestions

3.       carol.trky
165 posts
 05 Jul 2006 Wed 06:46 pm

4.       fish
75 posts
 05 Jul 2006 Wed 06:50 pm

aoayrı hande yener çok iyi yavaş vokalar

5.       bod
5999 posts
 05 Jul 2006 Wed 06:54 pm

But.......was my Türkçe above correct???

6.       erdinc
2151 posts
 05 Jul 2006 Wed 10:29 pm

Yes, almost correct.

should be "dinlemeye" with a case suffix.

BTW, I guess the English sentence was meant to be "I need to start listening to some slow Turkish dialogues!" with 'to' instear 'or'.

7.       bod
5999 posts
 06 Jul 2006 Thu 11:00 am

Quoting erdinc:

should be "dinlemeye" with a case suffix.



Why?
The dictionary shows başlamak as taking no noun state :-S

8.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 06 Jul 2006 Thu 11:06 am

Sometimes dictionaries don't show that. I don't have the case shown for "başlamak" in my Redhouse, but when you check the word "start" the examples have "-a" ending. Besides, I think all verbs govern a certain case so the only way to see what case it is you need to look up a word in an English-Turkish dictionary if Turkish-English gives no answer. Have a look at the entry for "start" in Redhouse:

fiil

1. başlamak; başlatmak:

It started to rain.
Yağmur yağmaya başladı.

They've started fighting.
Dövüşmeye başladılar.

Prices start at ten thousand liras.
Fiyatlar on bin liradan başlıyor.

Who started this?
Bunu kim başlattı?

2. (out/off) yola çıkmak/koyulmak.
3. (back) irkilmek, ürküp gayrıihtiyari bir hareket yapmak.
4. from (bir yerden) birdenbire ayağa sıçramak.
5. from (bir yerden) fışkırmak.
6. spor (at) (maçın başlangıcında) (takımda) yer almak.

9.       bod
5999 posts
 06 Jul 2006 Thu 11:43 am

Oh......

The dictionary linked from this site is usually very good at providing the noun states for verbs - as you will see başlamak is shown without noun state whereas sevmek is rightly shown as taking the /ı/ state.

:-S

10.       bod
5999 posts
 06 Jul 2006 Thu 11:47 am

Quoting erdinc:

BTW, I guess the English sentence was meant to be "I need to start listening to some slow Turkish dialogues!" with 'to' instear 'or'.



Yes - it was a typo - corrected now

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