Hi everyone ,

I was wondering whether there was a difference between :

-Soyuldum (passive form of soymak)

-Çalındım (passive form of çalmak)

"I was robbed" !

Hey!

We never say "Çalındım." in that context. It sounds like you´re the item that was stolen.  We use "Soyuldum." Also if we were to elaborate, we could say "Çantam çalındı". Those two words aren´t 100% synonyms: çalmak means to steal while soymak to rob.

Hope it was helpful,

-Jansay

Thank you for your answer !

If I understand well what you´ve said, you only use çalınmak for objects whereas you use soyulmak for people ?

And could you say : 

O beni çaldı : He stole me.

Or here again, should we use soymak because we are talking about a person :

O beni soydu ?

"O beni çaldı." means literally "He stole me."

"O beni soydu." means literally "He robbed me."

You can say both, it really depends on the context (like using a metaphore in poetry or something). But these two verbs have the perfect counterpart in English, so you can just use "çalmak" when you wanna mean to steal and "soymak" when you wanna mean to rob.

To make it more clear, like in English, you can´t use steal for kidnap. We don´t say in neither Turkish nor English "Beni çaldılar." Instead we say "Beni kaçırdılar." (They kidnapped me.) It´s about the nature of the word itself, not the language. People can´t be stolen; it´s not idiomatic. 

"O beni çaldı." means literally "He stole me."

"O beni soydu." means literally "He robbed me."

You can say both, it really depends on the context (like using a metaphore in poetry or something). But these two verbs have the perfect counterpart in English, so you can just use "çalmak" when you wanna mean to steal and "soymak" when you wanna mean to rob.

To make it more clear, like in English, you can´t use steal for kidnap. We don´t say in neither Turkish nor English "Beni çaldılar." Instead we say "Beni kaçırdılar." (They kidnapped me.) It´s about the nature of the word itself, not the language. People can´t be stolen; it´s not idiomatic. 

Sağ ol, it´s perfectly clear now  !