Merhaba.

How do you translate into Turkish a line of enumerated elements introduced with a phrase like "These are..."? It´s kinda troublesome, because of the word order which requires the verb to be placed at the end... I´m telling a Turkish friend about the educational system in my country and I wanted to say: There are a few types of high school. The most basic are: liceum, technikum... >> Yüksekokulun birkaç türü var. En temel - liceum (lise), technikum (teknik okulu)...

But if I say like this (using only a dash - after "temel") I may be understood that only "liceum" (first point) is the basic one, whereas I wanted to indicate that all these elements that I´m enumerating make the basic division, because there are many, many more possibilities apart from the ones I enumerated. In English there is no problem with understanding, because I say "The most basic are:" and the "are" refers to all the enumerated elements.

En temelleri lise, teknik lise,.......

I am not 100% sure about it, but I think you could say "en temelleri" if you want to be more accurate. This means "the most basic of them are...".

oh, I hadn´t seen the previous reply, I guess we say the same thing

by the way, are you German?? I just learned about the educational system in Germany and it involved these schools!

Hayır, Polonyalıyım

This made me think there was something missing here and checked it here to make sure:

http://www.tdk.gov.tr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=187

3. İkiden fazla eş değer ögeler arasında virgül bulunan cümlelerde özneden sonra noktalı virgül konabilir:

So it would be better like this:

En temelleri; lise, teknik lise,.......