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Thread: Order of adjectives

5351.       bod
5999 posts
 08 Jan 2006 Sun 05:46 am

When multiple adjectives are used in Türkçe is there any rule about their order???

For example:
Bu yaramaz küçük bir köpek or Bu küçük yaramaz bir köpek
"This is a naughty small dog" or "This is a small naughty dog"

I know in English I would always put 'naughty' before 'small' but I don't really know why. Perhaps because a small dog is always small but a naughty dog is not necessarily always naughty!

Is there any formal rule about such ordering of adjectives in Türkçe???



Thread: Use of accusative noun state

5352.       bod
5999 posts
 08 Jan 2006 Sun 05:38 am

I've just found a water bottle that we brought back from Türkiye - we used it to carry gin and tonic to drink on the journey back but that's another story lol

On the bottle it says doğal kaynak suyu which I translate as "natural spring water". But why is water written in the accusative noun state and not the nominal state???

Why not doğal kaynak su?



Thread: another word game

5353.       bod
5999 posts
 08 Jan 2006 Sun 05:25 am

Quoting Boop:

frambuaz - raspberry



turta - pie



Thread: confused

5354.       bod
5999 posts
 08 Jan 2006 Sun 02:24 am

Quoting rosie:

Why then do we say merhaba ben Rosie as this translates as hello me Rosie,or does ben also mean i'm?



Phrases are interpretted differently in different languages......to take your example the closest word for word translation would be "Hello, me Rosie".

Just like the famous line:
"me Tarzan, you Jane"

lol



Thread: Endings

5355.       bod
5999 posts
 08 Jan 2006 Sun 02:16 am

In Türkçe there are eight vowels and all words (except some imported words) must obey both the major and minor vowel harmony rules. This obeyance defines how suffixes are added to root words.

You can find lessons on the vowel harmony rules here:
Major Vowel Harmony
Minor Vowel Harmony

Once you have read those I have written a tool to help you get familiar with which vowels fall into which group. You can find this tool here:
Vowel Group Test

Hope that helps



Thread: How do I say these lutfen?

5356.       bod
5999 posts
 08 Jan 2006 Sun 01:38 am

Quoting louisa:

How do I say these lutfen?



It is lütfen and not lutfen!!!
If you need help typing Türkçe characters then check out this thread.



Thread: another word game

5357.       bod
5999 posts
 07 Jan 2006 Sat 07:19 pm

Quoting Boop:

İrlandaca - Irish



kaymak - cream



Thread: how to say 'me to...'

5358.       bod
5999 posts
 07 Jan 2006 Sat 07:18 pm

Quoting Lyndie:

Boys....boys.....come on!



*looks down trousers*

Oh yes
I do come under that description

lol lol



Thread: a three-word translation from turkish into eng

5359.       bod
5999 posts
 07 Jan 2006 Sat 04:10 pm

Quoting deli:

Quoting qdemir:

opposite is "karşısında"
Does a native speaker use in this way? I would be grateful if a native or bilingual speaker will tell me that.

thats why i couldnt find it in my dictionary i thought it was opposite but it threw me because of the spelling



Yup - totally threw me too......
But I didn't want to ask as I ask too many questions already lol



Thread: another word game

5360.       bod
5999 posts
 07 Jan 2006 Sat 02:46 pm

Quoting sophie:

hazine - treasure



leprechaun - leprechaun lol



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