Birkaç sorular
Merhaba! I'm just starting out, and can't find a reliable translation for these words:
Confusing (adj) "Turkish grammar can be confusing" "What a confusing sentence!"
Other (adj) "You should go to the other doctor" "I have an other idea" "I want to go to the other side"
"How should I address you?" (phrase)
"How should I address him/her?" (phrase)
^^If I don't know what name to use, "bayan" "hanım" "nine" "yenge" etc
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# Confusing (adj) : "kafa karıştırıcı". It means something hard to understand or learn, and makes you confused.
"Turkish grammar can be confusing." -> "Türkçe gramer kafa karıştırıcı olabilir."
"What a confusing sentence!" -> "Kafa karıştırıcı cümle!" or "Ne kadar da kafa karıştırıcı bir cümle."
# Other (adj) : "diğer", "başka". It means something different.
"You should go to the other doctor" -> "Diğer doktora da gitmelisin."
"I have an other idea" -> "Başka bir fikrim daha var!"
"How should I address you?" -> "Sana/size nasıl hitap etmeliyim?"
"How should I address him/her?" -> "Ona nasıl hitap etmeliyim?"
You can call "hanımefendi" to a woman who you don't know well.
You shouldn't use just "hanım". Because we use this word to our wife :) It can be perceived as rudeness.
The words like "yenge", "nine", "teyze" etc. indicates kinship.
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"Bayan"= Lady
"Hanım"=Wife
"Nine"=Grandmother
"Yenge"=Aunt. Uncle's is wife.
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the nouns don't take plural suffixes when they are together with plural adjectives.
bir gün: 1a day, 2one day, 3someday (in the future)
iki gün: two days
üç gün: three days
otuz gün: thirty days
birkaç gün: a few days
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Üniversitede birçok arkadaş edindim.
(I made a lot of friends at university.)
birçok arkadaş: a lot of friends
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Birkaç soru
A few questions
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öte: the further side
beri: the nearer side
-den beri: since
-den bu yana
1995'ten beri
(since 1995) > the nearer side from 1995
1995'ten bu yana
(since 1995) > to this side from 1995
1995'ten beri hiç bu kadar yağmur yağmamıştı.
1995'ten bu yana
(It had never rained this much since 1995.)
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öteki, diğer*, öbür: other (indefinite)
*diğer comes from Persian
let's imagine that there are three doctors: doctor A, doctor B, doctor C
you saw the doctor A but you didn't like him/her. and you say:
bu sefer öteki doktora gideceğim
bu sefer diğer doktora gideceğim
bu sefer öbür doktora gideceğim
(this time i'm going to see the other doctor)
we understand: doctor B or doctor C
başka: any other (indefinite)
başka bir : another
Bu sefer başka doktora gideceğim.
(This time, I'm going to see other doctor.)
we understand: perhaps doctor B, perhaps doctor C or perhaps any other doctors.
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Başka bir fikrim var.
(I have an other idea.)
Burası soğuk. Öteki/diğer/öbür tarafa geçmek istiyorum.
(Here is cold. I want to go/pass to the other side.)
öteki taraf, öbür taraf: (figuratively) world of dead
Öteki/öbür tarafa gitti.
If you say this sentence figuratively, it means (He/she is dead.)
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-den başka: except
Senden başka kimse yardım etmedi.
(Nobody except you helped me.)
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Ne karmaşık bir cümle!
What a confusing sentence!
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cümle
sentence
bir cümle
a sentence
karmaşık bir cümle
a confusing sentence
ne karmaşık bir cümle!
what a confusing sentence!
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