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Thread: words starting with two consonant

71.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 28 Nov 2013 Thu 12:32 pm

 

Quoting tunci

 

Turkish words do NOT start with two consonants. The following examples are loanwords as they start with two consonants.


Tren 

Klima 

Kredi 

Kral

 

 star (as in tv)

spor

 



Thread: T to E please :-)

72.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 28 Nov 2013 Thu 12:11 pm

 

Quoting SweetyKiz

Yüksek yüksek tepelere ev kurulmasını bile bahane edip ağlayan canlıya kadın denir

 

 The crying creature who uses even "let them not build houses on high hills"* as an excuse is called a woman.

 

* the first line of a famous song sung at henna parties, lamenting the fact that a girl leaves her village and goes to her husband´s village when she gets married

 

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Thread: ebay in Turkey

73.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 14 Nov 2013 Thu 03:41 pm

 

Quoting Hamit989

ucuzkervan adlı satıcı, ürününüzü 18:21:31 11/11/2013 tarihinde adresinize kargolamıştır. Ürüne, 3 iş günü (18:21:31 14/11/2013) içinde onay vermeniz gerekmektedir.

Sıfır Risk Sisteminde paranız, siz ürüne onay verince satıcıya aktarılır. Ürünü henüz teslim almadıysanız, onay vermeden önce lütfen ürünün size ulaşmasını bekleyin.

 

 the seller named ucuzkervan has cargoed the item to your address on 11/11/13. You need to approve this* within three working days.

Under our "no risk system" your money will be paid to the seller when you approve the product. If you have not yet received the goods, please wait for it to reach you before you approve it.

 

 

** you go back on to the site and tick approve ("onay") to say you got it and then the seller gets paid by them. This protects you, in case they don´t send it or it is faulty. However, to protect them, if you don´t tick OK and they can see from the cargo company´s records that it got sent to you, then they will still pay the seller, but it will take a few days delay. So, to be fair to a seller who has sent you things, you should approve it as soon as you get it OK.



Thread: As it turned out later...

74.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 14 Nov 2013 Thu 01:01 pm

you could also use "meğer" instead of "ama sonradan öğrendim ki"

 

Geç kaldığımı düşündüm meğer öğretmen henüz sınıfa girmemiş.

 

I thought I was late, but it turns out the teacher hadn´t come into class yet.

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Thread: A Turkish puzzle

75.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 09 Nov 2013 Sat 06:03 pm

Or how about Qs where the answer is the same as the question.

 

Kim geldi?

Kim geldi.

 

Who came?

Kim came.

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Thread: A Turkish puzzle

76.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 09 Nov 2013 Sat 06:02 pm

doesn´t exactly fit the puzzle, but it is fun too:

 

müdür müdür müdür

 

Is the boss the boss?

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Thread: hattim etmek

77.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 09 Nov 2013 Sat 05:59 pm

 

Quoting sufler

Merhaba.

Please take a look at the second sentence from this picture:

 Although he was not Christian he ... the Noble Quran.

 

Hristiyan olduğu halde - although he was a Christian

 

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Thread: cebimizde gibi

78.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 09 Nov 2013 Sat 05:57 pm

 

Quoting tunci

 

 

We spend [waste]  the time as if it is in our pocket. [ it is a figurative expression , we spend [waste] "time" so easily as if it is in our pocket. And we carry [put] its burden on our back.

 

 

 

agree. Think of it like "wasting something" = "spending it freely as if you have lots and lots of" = "spending it easily as if your pockets are so full of it you don´t have to be careful how you spend it".



Thread: çalmak

79.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 07 Nov 2013 Thu 12:20 pm

 

Quoting tomac

Is there any way to differentiate between both meanings in Turkish?

 

 Only the context.

 

e.g. If Paul McCartney said it I would assume the first

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Thread: Skipping the linker in a compound sentence

80.       MarioninTurkey
6124 posts
 06 Nov 2013 Wed 03:33 pm

 

Quoting tunci

 

3. Or, just sentences following eachother with using no linking element as that person did  in your example. [But punctuation should be put ]

To be honest with you, when I write a conversation like that I would write the same way as that person wrote to you . I mean, I wouldn´t worry about linking elements. You know what, it is weird but sometimes using linking elements makes converstaions boring.

In other words an ordinary Turk prefer to transfer his/her messages in a fluent , better flowing way without concerning to linking them to eachother. So , we , most of the time, prefer seperate sentences without linking them. Since, from the context, we already can guess that  those two sentences are linked.

This is my opinion.

 

Maybe we should also point out that, just as in English, the Turkish turks use in texts and conversation is less formal that the way they might write things in a letter or in a report.

 

 

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