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Kendisi vs. o
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15 Nov 2013 Fri 11:48 am |
Kendisi iyi bir yüzücüdür, ayrıca güzel de tenis oynar.
In the above sentence kendisi is used almost like the personal pronoun o. I don´t know the context, though. What kind of a situation could motivate this choice? Is the speaker comparing this person to others, connecting the sentence to what has been said before or just stressing the third person actor here?
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15 Nov 2013 Fri 12:46 pm |
Kendisi iyi bir yüzücüdür, ayrıca güzel de tenis oynar.
In the above sentence kendisi is used almost like the personal pronoun o. I don´t know the context, though. What kind of a situation could motivate this choice? Is the speaker comparing this person to others, connecting the sentence to what has been said before or just stressing the third person actor here?
It sounds more polite to my ears. I cant think about any other reason now.
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15 Nov 2013 Fri 12:49 pm |
It sounds more polite to my ears.
That´s interesting. Like a more formal way to talk about a third person. Thanks, gokuyum.
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15 Nov 2013 Fri 01:03 pm |
If you want to be more formal & polite, you can even add plural marking "ler,lar" when u refer the 3th singular person.
Kendileri iyi bir yüzücüdür, ayrıca güzel de tenis oynarlar.
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15 Nov 2013 Fri 01:25 pm |
If you want to be more formal & polite, you can even add plural marking "ler,lar" when u refer the 3th singular person.
Kendileri iyi bir yüzücüdür, ayrıca güzel de tenis oynarlar.
Hey I knew this. Once I entered the chat room and thehandsom said "Abla geldiler".
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15 Nov 2013 Fri 01:35 pm |
Hey I knew this. Once I entered the chat room and thehandsom said "Abla geldiler".
It would have been politer saying like this --->" Ooooo Abla Hanımlar sohbet odasına teşrif etmişler ! "
Edited (11/15/2013) by tunci
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15 Nov 2013 Fri 03:22 pm |
" Ooooo Abla Hanım lar sohbet odasına teşrif etmiş ler ! "
In that case I would have smelled the sarcasm. The one extra LAR just worked like a false coin for me.
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15 Nov 2013 Fri 03:38 pm |
If you want to be more formal & polite, you can even add plural marking "ler,lar" when u refer the 3th singular person.
Kendileri iyi bir yüzücüdürler, ayrıca güzel de tenis oynarlar.
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16 Nov 2013 Sat 02:05 am |
"Kendileri iyi bir yüzücüdür..."
"Kendileri iyi bir yüzücüdürler..."
Both sounds correct to me but i prefer the first one.
I think, we are not talking about a real plural, so using singular or plural addings isnt a problem.
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