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Thread: Mortgages?

31.       erdinc
2151 posts
 02 Sep 2008 Tue 04:09 pm

Whatever you do don´t join any kooperatif. A kooperatif means there are no houses yet but you sign an agreement with a building company and start paying monthly payments. You are hoping that they will build the houses or flats in the given time which is one year or two according the agreement but this almost never happens. Usually they require higher payments than you agreed at first. Also the construction goes on and on for many more years and sometimes they don´t build anything at all for a few years. Sometimes they build 80 houses to the same land which should have 50 according the plan.

 

If you want to get scammed the easiest way is to join a kooperatif. Nobody is going to protect you against scammy building companies. Local councils work for them. Corruption is at its highest level. No law is going to protect you if you join a kooperatif.  Many politicians are ex building company bosses. The parliement is full with them and they only introduce rules that would protect themselves.



Thread: homeork sectıon4

32.       erdinc
2151 posts
 02 Sep 2008 Tue 05:19 am

I always thought it is from Monday to Monday. Can you try beginner 2 again and see if it works now?



Thread: Ask your teacher - erdinc´s group

33.       erdinc
2151 posts
 01 Sep 2008 Mon 05:07 pm

-i is the accusative case. The accusative case is used in many situations. This is one of them. Plural generic direct objects take the accusative case.

 

Direct object: This means there is a verb that applies to the object itself. These verbs are also called transitive verbs. In other words, we are not doing something with an object. We are doing something to an object.

 

Accusative case: -ı, i, u, ü takes -y buffer if needed

 

Plural generic nouns: This means simply any plural noun that refers to an entire class.

 

´Kediler´ in "Ayşe kedileri çok sever" doesn´t refer to certain objects. We are talking generally about cats.

 

More examples about this type of usage of the accusative case:

 

Churchill Türkleri hafife almıştı.

Churchill underestimated the Turks.

 

Güçlü bir fırtına şehirleri yok edebilir.

A strong hurricane can demolish cities.

 

Devlet fakirleri korur.

The state protects the poor.

 

Sanatçıları anlamak her zaman kolay değildir.

It isn´t always easy to understand artists.

 



Thread: Ask your teacher - erdinc´s group

34.       erdinc
2151 posts
 31 Aug 2008 Sun 04:00 am

Canlı,

It works like you mentioned. ´Hiç´ is dropped with affirmative answer. So these would be correct:

 

Hayır, buraya daha önce hiç gelmedik.

Evet, buraya daha önce geldik.



Thread: How to go from Istanbul to Antalya?

35.       erdinc
2151 posts
 28 Aug 2008 Thu 02:42 pm

There is no train to Antalya or from Antalya. You can go by bus or you can fly there. I checked www.thy.com website and a return ticked was 198 ytl which is a good price.

 

If you choose to go by bus I suggest either Varan or Ulusoy. Picking a good bus company is critical in Turkia for comfortable bus trips. It can be very painful if you pick an ordinary company. Both have English websites:

www.varan.com.tr

www.ulusoy.com.tr

October tickets aren´t available yet for sale on their website. I think it will be available in early September. Alternatively give them a call. You can reserve a ticket on the phone and then collect from an office. Or you could wait a week or so and buy directly from their website. I have used the websites of both of these bus companies many times to buy tickets.



Thread: Teaching English in Turkey

36.       erdinc
2151 posts
 25 Aug 2008 Mon 11:23 pm

You can only teach in private schools and language courses. As far as I know they require any bachelors degree and an English teaching certificate like tefl or celta. Have a look at this page:

 

http://www.eslbase.com/jobs/turkey/

 

 

 



Thread: Ask your teacher - erdinc´s group

37.       erdinc
2151 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 09:16 pm

Yes you can say "Londra İstanbul kadar güzel" (London is as beautiful as İstanbul). But there is nothing stopping you from making the same sentence negative:

"Londra İstanbul kadar güzel değil." (London isn´t as beautiful as İstanbul.)

Now the meaning is the same as saying "İstanbul Londra´dan daha güzel" (İstanbul is more beautiful than London).



Thread: Ask your teacher - erdinc´s group

38.       erdinc
2151 posts
 23 Aug 2008 Sat 08:47 pm

"Ali Deniz daha çok sebzeler yiyor."

 

Delidolu,

This is almost correct. We use the -den suffix in comparisions with daha.  Also the object should be singular here. So the sentence is, "Ali Deniz´den daha çok sebze yiyor".

 

You can also build a smillar sentence with "kadar" and negative verb. "Deniz Ali kadar çok sebze yemiyor".

 

It´s the same with noun sentences. Of course you make a noun sentence negative by adding değil, instead the nagative suffix in verb sentences.

 

Türkiye İngiltere´den daha sıcak.

İngiltere Türkiye kadar sıcak değil.



Thread: a question

39.       erdinc
2151 posts
 21 Aug 2008 Thu 11:33 pm

Military officers have a compulsory job obligation. I not sure how long this is exactly but I guess it is 20 years. They can not leave their job during this time. If they do they will face a very high fine that they can´t pay. Some of the officers realise that the army is not for them but there is no way out. They could consider running away to another country and changing citizenship. A foreign wife is like a visa to a foreign country. Therefore it is not allowed.



Thread: Ask your teacher - erdinc´s group

40.       erdinc
2151 posts
 19 Aug 2008 Tue 11:34 pm

In your example the answer should be "Hayır, gitmiyor". I would never use "Evet, gitmiyor".

 

 

 



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