Those were basic mistakes I made.  I guess that´s what happens when you rush thru it.

Thanks for correcting Dilli.

Ben arkadaþýn (name)´in arkadaþým

Ben (name)´in arkadaþlarýden birim

I´m not sure about the 2nd sentence, wait for corrections.

anladým - I understand/I understood

merhaba terkar, ama tanýyamadým, kusura bakmayýn - hello again, but I couldn´t recognize (you), I´m sorry

This is great, thank you.

I talked to my American friend on MSN. Instead of "Did you watch it?" he said you should say "Have you watched it?". But how am I to understand which one I should be using? Also, he said that in "if you are so much busy"  you shouldn´t be using "much". Could somebody clarify this?

Wait for corrections, just a learner.

I have a question about expressing how long or since when something has been happening.

I´m familiar with the expression - dan beri to use to say that something has been happening since a specific point in time (1974´dan beri, bu sabahtan beri, yataktan kalktýðýmdan beri, etc.). I´m wondering how to express for how long something has been going on in terms of days, months, years, etc.

For example, to say: "I haven´t seen you for a month.", would it be ok to say:

- Bir aydan beri seni görmedim./Bir aydan beri seni görmiyorum.

- Bir aydir seni görmedim./Bir aydir seni görmiyorum.

- Bir ay için seni görmedim./Bir ay için seni görmiyorum.

- Seni gördüðümden beri bir aydir.?

- some other way???

Also, to express that concept, is it better to use the past tense (-di) or the present continuous (-iyor)?

And, on a similar note, to express the same concept in the future, would "için" be used? For example: "Turkiye´ye tatile üç hafta için gideceðim."?

Thank you for any explanation on the subject.

Ruth, if you google with title and name of the actor you´ll be able to get hits with websites that sell it. I googled it and first website I found it on was: http://www.nostalgiafamilyvideo.com/browse2.asp?cat=28&path=28, but there are others as well.

Good luck.

Awww, I didn´t think about the posessive construction making the difference here. Thank you for pointing that out. So it seems that you concur that this is a participle and not a tense suffix then.

So just to make sure I can apply it, would this sentence be correct?

"Ayþe, kýrmýzý elbisesini giymiþ bara gidiyor." 

for "Ayþe, having put on a red dress, is going to a bar." ?

and is that sentence structure equivalent (in meaning) to:

"Kýrmýzý elbiseyi giymekten sonra Ayþe bara gidiyor."

(my own translation, so there might be errors in it) 

Thank you.

I have a question re the -miþ suffix in the following sentence:

Çocuk, kapýya kulaðýný dayamýþ içeriyi dinliyor.

I know what the sentence means, but I´m not quite getting the grammar applied to "dayamak".

Is -miþ in this sentence a tense suffix or participle?

I´m thinking it´s a participle and the whole "kapýya kulaðýný dayamýþ" is used to describe "çocuk" as in "the child who´s been leaning his ear against the door". But if so, why isn´t it "Kapýya kulaðýný dayamýþ çocuk içeriyi dinliyor."?  Is it ok to flip them like that? And would "Çocuk, kapýya kulaðýný dayayan içeriyi dinliyor." be correct as well?

Again, I know the meaning of the sentence, it´s just driving me crazy if I don´t understand why something is the way it is, so I would be grateful if someone could shed some light.

Thanks.

Ah yes, I read about it in the book, she did write about it.

I thought maybe you were talking about the scandal with the Submission movie where the director was killed. Although then it wouldn´t be a juicy story, only tragic. I saw it on YouTube by the way, I wasn´t too impressed with the actress. 

I don´t really have an opinion about her as a person, I do admire her though for having the balls to speak out against the evils done in the name of her religion (e.g. she writes about genital mutiliation among other things). You don´t hear much of that from Muslims themselves, it´s usually the outsiders that do it.