-dan dolayı is causing a small hysteria to me. I bagged this sentence from scalpel from another thread:

         Yeni bir ayakkabı almak istediğimden dolayı ben de gitmek istedim.

Is this what we can call an adverbial clause (or gerund-equivalent)? Of course, what I am after is the case of the inlayed subject if it was a noun.

Thank you, MarioninTurkey, si++. Now we know what to say if there should ever be a reason for regrets.

It´s interesting how some languages are rich in these expressions and others are not. In Russian they really know how to do it with style: the word for farewell is the imperfective aspect of the verb ´to forgive´. It´s like goodbye now and no hard feelings.

No one can declare a war to Israel. There is no country more powerful on earth. It would be a suicide.

But I like the tone there is in Turkey´s recent foreign policy. Standing against Israel in this important matter is well noticed especially because of the long peaceful relationships. Arab countries are weak now because of their own problems and the rest of the world tries to turn their eyes to the opposite direction every time Israel breaks the limits of international justice.

Another thing you should be proud of and which I couldn´t help noticing is the humanitarian responsibility that Turkey carries in the area. Turkey opens its borders to Syrian refugees while EU is watching how people escaping from North Africa drown in Lampedusa waters.

Of course there is always more to it than public can see but it´s good to look at the good side of it. This clip is from one year ago but I guess it still holds:

"Honour and shame cultures"...hmm...I have to think about that.

If you or someone else one day has time to explain the different ways of saying I´m sorry it would be so good.

It was nice of you to look at my posts, MarioninTurkey. As for the wrong terms, I try my best to avoid them. When a dictionary gives me many alternatives I google the words and images in many ways and often find myself in strange places, like second-hand car advertisements (where I found the patlıcan coloured Lada) and mail order catalogues. The problem is that sometimes I first have to find the correct word in English. There are many chances to go wrong. But it´s all nice practice.

Yes, you´re right. It´s a useless burden mostly.

See, the problem is that you don´t mark everything. If you conjugated your adjectives also like they do in certain languages no such problems would occur.

Is it that the subject can be either sg 3rd, küçük or küçük kırmızı?

This diye-structure is interesting. I didn´t pay attention to it but recently. It seems to me a handy way to lighten the stream of complicated participle structures which Turkish is quite well provided with.

I still didn´t really shake hands with kendi. It doesn´t (quite) fit any scheme that I have got used to in other languages. Is it that is generally refers to the subject of the main clause if there is one or is this a simplification? Usually it makes things more complicated to me. I guess it will just take some time and more material to get used to it.

Ambiguity has caused a lot of problems to me recently when trying to learn Turkish and I see now that it´s partly because the sentences which I look at are separated from their environment. Trying to make them waterproof in these circumstances may cause problems. Maybe I should be more worried about if they are grammatical or not.

It would be a shame not to learn with all this help that I´m getting. Thank you, si++, scalpel.

Can´t kendisi refer to the subject, the beater?