Learning Turkish language

[kitty_sweet]

"Özür dilerim"

tesekkur ederim

[sohuda]

lutfen, a little help

"çiçekler böceklerdir hep arkadaşı">> "(his friends are flowers,insects)
how can "his friends" be both flowers and insects at the same time?

cok sagol herkese~

[kitty_sweet]

now i have another question: What does "bayildim" mean?

[Derin89]

Bayıldım means "I fainted" but it's used to express intense liking you take in something. For example "Elbisene bayıldım" "I loved your dress"

[kitty_sweet]

sagol

[Oriee]

more questions (sorry too many I know, but if I don't post em I'll forget them):
1. "evvel Allah tanıştık evvelden " has been translated as: "first is God we met firstly"
Can someone tell me what does that mean? how can two things be 'first' at the same time? :S

2. "çiçekler böceklerdir hep arkadaşı">> "(his friends are flowers,insects)
how can "his friends" be both flowers and insects at the same time?

cok sagol herkese~

Salam ya Huda... I'd like to suggest you using google translate, it'll give you other meaning than the one you posted
for ex. for the first sentece it was translated as "He formerly met before"
I'm not use whether it is correct or not...
Regards..

[sohuda]

Salam to you to you Oriee..


thanks

[Cristinakiss]

can someone explain why the verb konusmak is used differently in these 2 situations?
türkçe konuşmayı istiyorum
türkçe konuşmaya çalışıyorum
why is it with "ı" in the first case and with "a" in the 2nd?
both situations r infinitive...thanks

[Derin89]

Okay my explanation might not be very academical but I'll try

1)Türkçe konuşmayı istiyorum> I want to speak Turkish. (Turkish is the direct object here, so it takes the accusative case, -i,ı)

2)Türkçe konuşmaya çalışıyorum> I try to speak Turkish (Turkish is somewhat like an indirect object) What do I try to do? I don't try "Turkish" I try to "speak Turkish". If you wrote "konuşmayı" there then the sentence would be meaningless "Turkish, I try to speak" it doesn't sound so incomplete in English as it does in Turkish though. That sort of a structure wouldn't make sense in Turkish.

Similarly: "Satranç öğrenmeyi istiyorum" (I want to learn chess)

"Satranç öğrenmeye çalışıyorum" ("I am trying to learn chess")

Note: Türkçe konuşmak istiyorum>I want to speak Turkish. (A correct sentence that can be used, same as the first one in meaning, but here "konuşmak" is in its infinitive form)

[Cristinakiss]

thanks a lot derin...

[Derin89]

You're welcome.

[Cristinakiss]

how can i say in turkish "I'm sorry"?

i think you can also say "kusura bakma"...i heard it a few times...sorry if am wrong...

[Balkaneuro]

i think you can also say "kusura bakma"...i heard it a few times...sorry if am wrong...

affet beni - forgive me
ozur dilerim - i am sorry
kusura bakma - don't notice my fault/mistake

you can use all three to apologize, but the first to are more serious or meaningful i think

[Derin89]

You're right, it is "kusura bakma" or "özür dilerim" (this is more like an apology)

edit: Balkaneuro is right too

[Cristinakiss]

i am still a beginner...any correction is welcome...i have learnt many things...most of it i can say...from this forum...

[Balkaneuro]

You're right, it is "kusura bakma" or "özür dilerim" (this is more like an apology)

edit: Balkaneuro is right too

hey derin89, so i tried to translate some songs , when you have time can you take a look for me please? i hope i didn't make so many errors

[Derin89]

Sure I'll look at them

Hey Cristinakiss, you haven't made a mistake you should write in spite of making mistakes that's how you learn a language effectively

[Cristinakiss]

yeah i know, i am a teacher myself...i have a few turkish friends and sometimes they help me too...i stayed 3 weeks in turkey this summer and i learnt a lot there...but i need to improve...i love turkish language...to my ears, is simply divine...i dont understand why...

[Derin89]

Yea many people say Turkish sounds so nice. We've been stopped by one guy in London who asked which language we were speaking because it sounded so nice to his ears lol

Good luck in your studies Cristinakiss.

[Cristinakiss]

Yea many people say Turkish sounds so nice. We've been stopped by one guy in London who asked which language we were speaking because it sounded so nice to his ears lol

Good luck in your studies Cristinakiss.

Thanks...maybe one day we will actually have a conversation in turkish...hehe...