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A bit confused in the possessive case of Turkish Language
I am learning Turkish Language and the possessive cases are confusing me. I am learning it form a site and there is this one case that is really confusing.
I have to translate "The dog eats your strawberry"
Now I have translated is as : "Köpek…
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Adjectives in Turkish always comes before the noun?
I've read that in Turkish adjectives always comes before the noun. So to say "nice house" we say "güzel ev".
But we also could say "the house is nice", and in that case this becomes "ev güzel".
My question here is: both constructions seems to lead…
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In Turkish, regarding the locative, how do we know which suffix (-de or -da) should be used?
I'm studying Turkish, and regarding the locative, I've learned that it is implemented by adding the suffix -DA or -TA, the latter being used when the word starts with "p, ç, t, k, f, h, s, and ş".
So some examples from Duolingo are:
Park means park…
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why is erdogan pronounced erdowan?
i've heard the Turkish president's name pronounced in about 100 ways. what's the right way, and how does that connect with the latin letters?
P.s. this is not a duplicate. I did not ask about g in Turkish in some particular situation, I asked…
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Could Gothic ahs (ear of grain) and Turkish ak (white) be cogante?
Could Gothic ahs (ear of grain) and Turkish ak (white) be cogante like English wheat and white ?
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