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1.       denizli
970 posts
 08 Mar 2016 Tue 08:04 pm

I was trying to understand what this could mean?

Evet arkadaşlarım ve Amerikalı, Kanadalı ama kimseyle yazışamıyorum aslında.

Could it be: Yes, I have American friends but actually I can´t correspond with the Canadian ones.

OR: Yes my friends are American and Canadian but I can´t correspond with anyone actually.



Edited (3/8/2016) by denizli
Edited (3/8/2016) by denizli

2.       scalpel - -
203 posts
 09 Mar 2016 Wed 06:34 pm

 

Quoting denizli

 

Evet arkadaşlarım ve Amerikalı, Kanadalı ama kimseyle yazışamıyorum aslında.

 

OR: Yes my friends are American and Canadian but I can´t correspond with anyone actually.

 

 

3.       denizli
970 posts
 09 Mar 2016 Wed 06:57 pm

Thankyou!

4.       Erman-esk
15 posts
 10 Mar 2016 Thu 12:36 am

 

I was trying to understand what this could mean?

 

Ne anlama geldiğini anlamaya çalışıyordum

5.       Henry
2604 posts
 11 Mar 2016 Fri 09:24 am

 

Quoting Erman-esk

I was trying to understand what this could mean?

Ne anlama geldiğini anlamaya çalışıyordum

Did you want to check something? T to E?

my thoughts

anlamaya çalışıyordum = I was trying to understand

anlam =meaning

anlama gelmek = to have that meaning, (to come to that meaning)

so I guess the English translation might be ....

I was trying to understand what the meaning is?

........... whoops {#emotions_dlg.shy}

That´s what you translated. Jeton düştü.{#emotions_dlg.rolleyes}

 



Edited (3/11/2016) by Henry [realised it did not need an answer]

6.       scalpel - -
203 posts
 11 Mar 2016 Fri 11:07 pm

 

Quoting Henry

 

 Jeton düştü.{#emotions_dlg.rolleyes}

 

 

the word "jeton" in the idiom refers to "telefon jetonu"

you insert the "jeton" in the coin slot and it falls down somewhere into the phone making a sharp click sound and then you hear the dialing tone that means the phone is ready to operate. This is called "jeton düştü"    

you know, sometimes something goes wrong and the jeton doesn´t work.. you have to reinsert it.. and this is called "jeton düşmedi" Wink  

 

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7.       Henry
2604 posts
 11 Mar 2016 Fri 11:53 pm

My old Turkish teacher used this expression whenever someone realised a grammar point. It is like the English expression "The penny dropped".

Pay-phones took pennies for payment years ago. Tokens or jetons were also used for the ferries when I first visited Istanbul in 1990.

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