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Thread: Out!

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bod
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11 Jan 2006 Wed 05:40 pm

Which TÃ¼rkÃ§e verb would one use to give an instruction to get out of a room. In English I would instruct Floss (bezim yaramaz kÃ¶peğimiz!) either "Floss out!" or "Floss get out".

The closest I can find in TÃ¼rkÃ§e is:
Floss ayrıl! or Floss diş git!
But the latter seems to mean that I want her to go outside the house, not just outside the room.

Thread: List Of Books For Turkish Learners

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bod
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11 Jan 2006 Wed 05:35 pm

Quoting Joey:

Quoting bod:

Quoting Joey:

"201 Turkish Verbs fully conjugated in all tenses" by Talat Sait Halman. Barron's Educational Series,Inc.available from Amazon.
Excellent for reference.

I've looked at getting this book......

How useful is it???
Does it help you to know when to use which verb?

It gives a fairly full meaning to most verbs and I have found it very useful.Each verb is given one page and the Aorist,Present continuous,Future,Definite past,Indefinite past,Necessity,Optative(Subjunctive),Conditional and Imperative are shown.

That might just have to go on my shopping list then

Thread: I. Mastar Hali - The Infinitive

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bod
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11 Jan 2006 Wed 05:32 pm

Quoting deli:

im and iniz endings. when these endings are added to words which end in a vowel you only add M or NIZ , eg turkcem =my turkish bakaniz= your bank.ucu bes geciyor

Yes, I realise that.

But when a possessive suffix is added to a proper noun (the name of someone or something) an apostrophe is used to separate the noun from the suffix. For example:
Floss'um - my Floss (Floss being the name of my dog!)

In English, 'Turkish' is treated as a proper noun; the name of the language spoken by the Turkish people. I assume the same is not true in TÃ¼rkÃ§e as no apostrophe is used.

Thread: birkaç and birçok + plural or singular?

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bod
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11 Jan 2006 Wed 03:34 pm

Quoting erdinc:

birÃ§ok : many
birkaÃ§ : a few

Both take the singular noun.

This seems to contradict the information here:
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/defarts.htm

An example given is:
BahÃ§ede bazı kediler var. - There are some cats inthe garden.
In this case "cats" is certainly written in the plural form.

Forget that - it is me reading it all wrong

*looks puzzled*
- Şaşırtıyorum -

Saat biryi yirmi sekiz geÃ§iyor (13:28)

Thread: List Of Books For Turkish Learners

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bod
5999 posts

11 Jan 2006 Wed 03:28 pm

Quoting Joey:

"201 Turkish Verbs fully conjugated in all tenses" by Talat Sait Halman. Barron's Educational Series,Inc.available from Amazon.
Excellent for reference.

I've looked at getting this book......

How useful is it???
Does it help you to know when to use which verb?

Thread: I. Mastar Hali - The Infinitive

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bod
5999 posts

11 Jan 2006 Wed 03:00 pm

Quoting deli:

bod when we say my turkish we drop the i and just say turkcem same with your turkish =turkceniz ok dont ask me why though :-S

Is this true of all languages?
Are they not thought of as proper nouns?

e.g.
LehÃ§e'in or LehÃ§en ???

Saat bire altı var (12:54)

Thread: Diş ağrısı

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bod
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11 Jan 2006 Wed 02:57 pm

Quoting erdinc:

Quoting bod:

Başardım inanırım

Başardım sanırım. ( double click on Sanmak )

TeşekkÃ¼rler

What is the difference between inanmak and sanmak?
Was I right to use the aorist tense here or would the present continous tense have been better?

Thread: birkaç and birçok + plural or singular?

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bod
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11 Jan 2006 Wed 02:49 pm

It seems to me that the only time the -ler suffix is used is when the pluralism of the noun cannot be understood by the rest of the sentence. So 'many', 'a few', 'five', etc. suggest that it is plural already, therefore the -ler suffix in unnecessary, tautologous even.

Is that about right?

Saat bire Ã§eyrek var (12:45)

Thread: küçük or ufak?

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bod
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11 Jan 2006 Wed 02:44 pm

Interestingly I have just been reading the section on diminutives in "Turkish Grammar" and, as an example, it translates these two words as:

kÃ¼Ã§Ã¼k - small
ufak - tiny

That seems to make sense

Saat bire yirmi iki var (12:38)

Thread: Pleasantries and casual greetings

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bod
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11 Jan 2006 Wed 02:41 pm

Quoting deli:

buyurun= here you are

Ã‡ok teşekkÃ¼r ederim

Saat bire yirmi beş var (12:35)

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