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to pretend
1.       KediNero
418 posts
 10 Mar 2014 Mon 03:05 am

How do you say to pretend ? Can you translate this for me please?

 

 

Let´s pretend we´re married.

Let´s pretend we never met.

Let´s pretend we are robots.

Let´s pretend we don´t exist.

 

Let´s not pretend that you didn´t see.

Let´s not pretend that everything is good.

 

i will pretend to hug you.

i will pretend to be your girlfriend.

 

i can´t pretend to be happy.

 



Edited (3/10/2014) by KediNero

2.       impulse
298 posts
 10 Mar 2014 Mon 11:25 am

 

Quoting KediNero

How do you say to pretend ? Can you translate this for me please?

 

 

Let´s pretend we´re married.

Hadi evlenmiş gibi yapalım

 

Let´s pretend we never met.

Hadi hiç karşılaşmamışız gibi yapalım.

 

Let´s pretend we are robots.

Hadi robotmuşuz gibi yapalım

 

Let´s pretend we dont exist

Sanki yokmuşuz gibi düşünelim

 

Let´s not pretend that you didn´t see.

İstersen sanki görmemişsin gibi davranmayalım.

 

Let´s not pretend that everything is good.

Sanki herşey iyiymiş gibi davranmayalım.

 

i will pretend to hug you.

Sana sarılıyor gibi yapacağım.

 

i will pretend to be your girlfriend.

Kız arkadaşınmışım gibi yapacağım

 

i can´t pretend to be happy.

Sanki mutluymuşum gibi yapamam.

 

 

 

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3.       Abla
3648 posts
 10 Mar 2014 Mon 12:12 pm

Really cool sentences, thank you impulse. Like a game with verb queues and tenses. A good example of how lexical meanings are often conveyed with grammatical means in Turkish.

 

I remember one more structure for ´pretend´:

 

İşveren isteklerimi duymazlıktan geliyor. ´The employer pretends not to have heard my wishes.´

 

You can also see it as duymazdan gelmek.

 

I have a feeling the structure works with a limited set of verbs, i.e. duymak and görmek. Correct me if I am wrong.

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4.       KediNero
418 posts
 10 Mar 2014 Mon 06:33 pm

ikinize de teşekkür ediyorum.

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