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    'Bekledikleri' as an adjective means 'that/which they await' As in: 'bekledikleri tren' = 'the train which they await' 'bekledikleri cevap' = 'the answer that they expect' As a noun, it means (in this case): 'the fact that they await' (or more literally 'the act of awaiting, by them') 'Bekledikleri belli' = 'it is obvious (the fact) that they await' 'plan beklediklerini söylediler' = 'they said that they await a plan' The -(n)i affix which is added, is due to the fact that here it is used as a direct object in the sentence, as is done with any other (defined) direct object. (As Gul pointed out earlier)
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    July 12, 2012
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    What I can't stand the most is that you pretend that I am invisible. You are really a good PERformer, pretending (that) I don't exist. You have played it well, pretending (that) I don't exist. Let's mix 'em all up: Although I couldn't stand it at all, you have performed well at playing pretend that I don't exist!
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    April 12, 2012
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    Bu verdiginiz cumle yapisiyla ingilizce bir ornek cumle kurarmisiniz lutfen? Tesekkur ederim
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    April 12, 2012
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    Hayır, 'arasıNDA' diye okuman yanlış olmuş. 'arası' olacak. Diğer arkadaşlar farklı soruya cevap vermişler sanki, ben mi yanlış anladım soruyu?
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    April 12, 2012
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    It's quite normal that you mixed the two up, and this is a good question worthy of a good answer :) First, a small recap of the genitive construction in turkish. We use an indicator for 'my' twice while making the genitive construction. 'Ben' means 'I' as you know. In 'benim' The affix -m turns the word 'I' into a possessive pronoun making it 'my' (mine, of me). (careful, the affix is -M, not -im, the i is added for ease of pronunciation) The same affix is used once again after what is possessed. So 'melek' becomes 'meleğim' (k becomes ğ for ease of pronunciation) So in short, 'Benim meleğim' -> 'My angel' ('My angel-of-me' if you will) There you see how we say 'my' two times in the same sentence. ------- Now the confusion that you experienced comes from something else, which is a subject omission in Turkish. Sounds complicated but it's actually easy, I'll explain. In Turkish, when conjugating verbs, every person has it's unique ending, for this reason the subject can be left out, omitted. I am here = Ben burada-yım. Since '-yım' is UNIQUE for the first person singular, you can OMIT 'I' and just say: 'Burada-yım' (-yım also says I) Same with an angel (bir melek) (bir = 'an'): 'Bir meleğim' = I am an angel. Now the thing to be careful of here is, the affix that means 'I', or first person singular, is '-im'. Remember with the possessive, the affix was '-m'? THIS is the confusion. The possessive affix is '-m' and the first person singular conjugation affix is '-im' and the problem is, in some cases the words turn out to be exactly the same because vowels are added before the suffix to make the pronunciation easier. Adding an i for pronunciation before -m, makes you confuse it with -im. Lastly, a tip for not making mistakes while forming your own words. The vowels for ease of pronunciation are added when the base word ends with a letter of the same type as the first letter of the affix. By type i mean consonant or vowel. So for '-m' you see that the first letter of the affix (there is only one) is a consonant. Therefore if the base word ends in a consonant (e.g. at (horse)) you add a vowel in between. So 'my horse' becomes 'at-ım' Now, 'I am a horse'. The affix for first person singular is '-ım', the first letter of this affix is a vowel, and the last letter of 'at' is a consonant, so nothing is changed and we get: 'At-ım', indeed, same thing for 'my horse' and 'i am a horse'. The correct meaning is to be derived from 2 things: 1: the context 2: the intonation: with possession: the emphasis is on -m, with 'to be' the emphasis is on the base word. I hope this has helped.. If you have any more questions you can always ask^^
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    April 12, 2012
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    Pardon me but I don't see the word 'it' in this sentence.
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    November 9, 2011
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    niet: not Ik heb niet gegeten. - I have not eaten. geen: no Er zijn geen klanten. - There are no customers.
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    October 31, 2011
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    "It was being able to meet." or "It used to be being able to meet." For example: Buluşabilmekti, tek dileğimiz. "It was being able to meet, our only wish." or "Our only wish was to be able to meet."
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    October 29, 2011
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    Türkçe'de belirleyici tanımlık yoktur. Belirsiz tanımlık Türkçe'de 'bir' (ein). Örnek: Bir araba gördüm. (Ich habe eine Auto gesehen.) Ayrıca Türkçe'de bu tanımlık kullanılmayabilir de: Örnek: Araba gördüm. (Ich habe eine Auto gesehen.) Almanca'da, araba 'belirli' ise, yani hangi arabadan bahsedildiği biliniyor ise, 'belirli tanımlık' (Der, Die veya Das) kullanılır. Türkçe'de bu belirlilik bazi eklerle göstertilir. (-ı, -yı, -i, -yi, -u, -yu, -ü, -yü) Örnek: Araba-yı gördüm. (Ich habe DAS Auto gesehen.) Isim kendisi özne ve belirli ise, hiç bir eki olmaz tanımlığı da olmaz Türkçe'de. Araba gidiyor. Fakat, belirsiz ise arabamız, işte o zaman belirsiz tanımlık kullanılır: Bir araba gidiyor. Yani dilimizde, isim özne görevini yapıyorsa ve önünde belirsiz tanımlık olmadığı sürece belirli olduğu anlaşılıyor. Almanca'da öyle değil, daima belirli ise belirli tanımlık, belirsiz ise belirsiz tanımlık kullanılır. Araba gidiyor -> Das Auto geht. Bir araba gidiyor -> Ein Auto geht. Not: Ne zaman Der, Die veya Das kullanacağınız ismin cinsiyetinden anlaşılır. Bunun için isimleri öğrenirken cinsiyetlerini de öğrenmeniz gerekir. Der erkek cinsiyetli isimler için, Die dişi cinsiyetli isimler için ve Das cinsiyetsiz isimler için kullanılır.
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    October 28, 2011
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    I'm going to correct the text given, though I didn't understand your question "Is this abstract correct?". Bence, Maria sorunu hakkında John ile (John'la) konuşmalı. Inanıyorum ki, konuşarak bütün sorunları çözerler. Eğer bundan sonra aynı davranışı devam edecek olursa, Maria bunu genel müdürüne söylemeli. Please post if you have any questions.
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    October 25, 2011
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