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"The majority reads the newspaper."
Translation:Çoğunluk gazeteyi okur.
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1871
Is the word 'çoğunluk' related to the word 'çok'? It looks that way. But how, what's the '-un-' doing there?
Yeah, çok means 'very,' çoğu is a noun meaning "most." The -n- puts çoğun in the genitive case, and the -luk is 'with' but here is sort of like the -ity we add in English: we are going from "the most (major part) " --> the majority
Why "çoğunluğun" is not accepted here, please consider the previous sentence in this lesson before answering for which the Turkish transportation (çoğunluğun iki çocuğu var) is accepted.
In your example, "çoğunluğun" is in genitive case because it is the possessor of the children ("çocuğu" = "çocuk" with a possessive suffix). So the literal translation is something like: "The majority's two children exist."
In this sentence however, the majority don't have/possess newspapers, they're just reading them, so we use nominative case: "çoğunluk" :-)
how come it's not just "cogunluk gazete okur"? Does it mean a specific newspaper?
The english sentence doesn't usually mean a specific newspaper, so maybe multiple translations into turkish should be accepted.
In Turkish, just as in English, "the majority" is a singular concept. It is a little more fluid in English (you can say "the majority read..."), but not in Turkish :)
- 186
Why the difference? The majority have two kids.. That majority reads the newspaper.
THE MAJORITY has 2 different forms , but I can't understand why and when to use which form.
Can anyone explain please?
- 1871
"The majority have two kids" is wrong. It should be "The majority has...". Although many native English speakers make this mistake.
The right answer is: Çoğunluk gazete okur. Çoğunluk gazeteyi okur. Means Everybody reads this newspaper. Adding yi pointing only one newspaper. For example Gazeteyi nereye koydun? answer is Gazeteyi masanin ustune koydum or gazete masanin ustunde.
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What is the difference between çoğunluğun and çoğunluk. I confess I am about to stop this course. I can put up repeating thousands and thousands of times.
