What verb form is used here?
"- Buyurun efendim, ne arzu etmiştiniz?
- Buzdolabı ve televizyon alacaktım."
ALACAKTIM: what kind of verb form is it and how should it be translated in this context? It looks like a combination of the future and past tense of "almak", but why isn't just alacağım?
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Hello, it means "buy" in this context. This tense does not exist in English, you can translate it like i would like to buy a fridge
Normally it means that I was going to buy but I didn't, but in this context it is just a manner of speaking, it is not formal language. It's just more kind to say like this
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- Buyurun efendim, ne arzu etmiştiniz?
- Buzdolabı ve televizyon alacağım. || I'm gonna buy a fridge and a television ,,,,,,,,,,, to talk normally
- Buzdolabı ve televizyon alacaktım. || I would (like to) buy a fridge and a television ,,,,,,,,,, to empolite the expression
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Actually I am surprised because all the answers are wrong.
"Alacaktım" literally means, I was going to buy. It is a combination of future tense and past tense, "Gelecek zamanın hikayesi" in Turkish. As you might already know, "acak,ecek" is future tense verb-makers, and "-tı" is past tense-maker, with a consonant assimilation (normally -dı), "al-acak-tı-m", last letter "m" represents the hidden subject "Ben" meaning "I".
I hope it is clear now.
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almak: 1to take, "2to buy," 3to receive
al + acak (future)
>alacak
||bare form of the future tense
idi
was
idim
i was
was will > would
-ecek idi / -acak idi > -ecekti/-acaktı
alacaktım
I would buy
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You must thinking I was want to buy.
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