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Thread: t to e plz

2981.       Abla
3648 posts
 04 Dec 2011 Sun 08:56 pm

Never mind. Maybe it´s ment to be.



Thread: t to e plz

2982.       Abla
3648 posts
 04 Dec 2011 Sun 07:40 pm

Let´s try again.

Maybe:

 

"Actually what hurts man the most

is not breaking of dreams.

(But) those happy things which he is not able to experience while it is possible to live them."



Thread: t to e plz

2983.       Abla
3648 posts
 04 Dec 2011 Sun 02:47 pm

Maybe:

"Actually what hurts man the most

is not breaking of dreams.

(But) those happy things which he is not able to experience while it is possible to live them."



Edited (12/4/2011) by Abla



Thread: T to E pls. thank you very much

2984.       Abla
3648 posts
 04 Dec 2011 Sun 09:20 am

Perhaps something like

I fell passionately in love and settled down. I ran after (something) but got tired. Among thousands of beauties I fell for you, for you only I fell.

Please, wait for corrections.



Thread: Between Vocabulary and Grammar

2985.       Abla
3648 posts
 03 Dec 2011 Sat 07:09 pm

Well, in good hands it is a good one.



Thread: Male or Female

2986.       Abla
3648 posts
 03 Dec 2011 Sat 06:55 pm

Fine, si++. Now I will spend the whole day wondering what you might have thought that I ment.



Thread: Between Vocabulary and Grammar

2987.       Abla
3648 posts
 03 Dec 2011 Sat 06:53 pm

I use the dictionary which is linked to this page. Don´t tell me it´s bad because it is not. Yes, I could probably find them but some communication would make them easier to memorize. Besides, you don´t usually go to gelmek when you look for the meaning ´pretend´. I keep finding them accidentally.



Thread: Between Vocabulary and Grammar

2988.       Abla
3648 posts
 03 Dec 2011 Sat 05:32 pm

There is one thing I would like to learn. I hope I can explain it. It is something between dictionary and grammar, kind of using grammar for lexical purposes or co-operating of noun case marking and verbs. And it´s very Turkish.

I am attracted to expressions like

         Duymazlıktan geldi ´He pretended not to have heard´

when I see them. There is no word meaning ´pretend´ in the sentence but the meaning comes from a very common verb combined with an ablative ending attached to deverbal noun (am I right?).

These phrases are a lot. Often they have to do with modality or aspect or other finetuning of the meaning.

The problem is expressions like this are hard to memorize. That´s why I thought we could collect them somewhere when we see them. (Of course I could collect them into my own files but it wouldn´t be even half as fun.)  Natives, of course, can list a dozen of them every time they exhalate but even learners can come up with something.

In the old threads I have found information like this about olmak but it is not only olmak that works this way.



Edited (12/3/2011) by Abla



Thread: English is not easy

2989.       Abla
3648 posts
 03 Dec 2011 Sat 05:14 pm

Good you noticed, gokuyum. I know it in theory but I am not familiar with the structure yet.



Thread: Male or Female

2990.       Abla
3648 posts
 03 Dec 2011 Sat 05:09 pm

An interesting thought and I tend to believe it. It is like a strategy that the ancient speakers have chosen: to carry with them only those things which are needed. Once you drop the 3rd person pronoun there is not much place to hang useless luxuries like gender marks. Just like pro-drop leads to dropping of other things also.

At the same time some other cavemen behind impassable seas and mountains decided they will carry some more  -  with the cost of getting a bit tired. And abundance became their strategy.

 

 



Edited (12/3/2011) by Abla [Used the wrong word]
Edited (12/3/2011) by Abla [Missing words, what´s next?]



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