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Participle chaos..
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25 Sep 2006 Mon 11:31 pm |
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Can someone check these for me? The sentences may sound a bit crooked, but it's about the grammar..
This is the nicest present that I received.
Bu en güzel aldığım hediye.
Of all the presents I got he gave me the nicest one I received.
Aldığımın hediyelerin hepsi o bana en güzel aldığımı verdi
And how would you translate this:
"He gave me the best present I could ever have received"
Thanks
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25 Sep 2006 Mon 11:35 pm |
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He gave me the best present I could ever have received"
Daha once boyle bir hediye asla almamistim..En guzel hediyeyi verdi bana.
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25 Sep 2006 Mon 11:38 pm |
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Quoting Rain: He gave me the best present I could ever have received"
Daha once boyle bir hediye asla almamistim..En guzel hediyeyi verdi bana. |
Thanks Rain 
But don't you translate "that I could have received" with a participle then?
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25 Sep 2006 Mon 11:42 pm |
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i alrdy translate lady
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25 Sep 2006 Mon 11:50 pm |
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Quoting Rain: i alrdy translate lady |
I know, and I appreciated it. And I'm the last to argue with a native speaker 
But you changed the structure of the sentence, I thought there would be a participle for what I wanted to say..
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25 Sep 2006 Mon 11:52 pm |
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almamıştım, is the participle Elisa
But i don't understand why almamıştım and not almıştım ?
Why negative ?
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25 Sep 2006 Mon 11:53 pm |
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that I could have received
she mean she never got this kind of gift bfre.. first time he gave her.. not hard to undersntd
daha once boyle bir hediye almamistim..
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25 Sep 2006 Mon 11:56 pm |
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Quoting CANLI: almamıştım, is the participle Elisa
But i don't understand why almamıştım and not almıştım ?
Why negative ? |
Ahaaa!  See, I haven't got to those ones yet.. 
I guess you have to use a negative with the word "asla", right?
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25 Sep 2006 Mon 11:58 pm |
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almamistim... never take bfre... almistim alrdy took bfre..
i never got this kind of gift bfre.. (daha once asla boyle bir hediye almamistir,..)
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26 Sep 2006 Tue 08:09 am |
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Quoting Elisa: Can someone check these for me? The sentences may sound a bit crooked, but it's about the grammar..
This is the nicest present that I received.
Bu en güzel aldığım hediye.
Of all the presents I got he gave me the nicest one I received.
Aldığımın hediyelerin hepsi o bana en güzel aldığımı verdi
And how would you translate this:
"He gave me the best present I could ever have received"
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This is the nicest present that I received.
Bu aldığım en hoş hediye.
The nicest present -- en hoş hediye
You cannot insert "aldığım" in between, it would then mean something else:
en hoş aldığım hediye
the present which I have received the nicest way
en hoş (the nicest) modifies the verb (almak) as an adverb
Of all the presents I got he gave me the nicest one I received.
Aldığımın hediyelerin hepsi o bana en güzel aldığımı verdi
Aldığım hediyelerin en hoşunu, bana "o" verdi. (if you mean he was the one who gave it to me)
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Bana aldığım hediyelerin en hoşunu verdi. (if you mean the nicest one)
"He gave me the best present I could ever have received"
Bana alabileceğim en iyi hediyeyi verdi.
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