"Dedi ki onun kocası sana vurmuş."
Translation:She said that her husband hit you.
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That would mean he shot you with a gun.
Accusative + vurmak = to shoot someone
Dative + vurmak = to hit someone
Vurmak = to hit / to shoot.
The difference is in the declension of its object. If you use it with an object in the dative case (sana), it means "to hit". If you use it with an accusative word (seni), it means "to shoot".
What's the difference in meaning to: Dedi ki onun kocası sana vurdu ? If I remember correctly, "ki" indicates that the part following it is more or less direction quotation. Then "vurmuş" instead of "vurdu" would indicate whether the reporter (the subject of "dedi") witnessed the hitting event. Or do I misremember, and what matters is whether the speaker witnessed it, in which case "vurmuş" would be strongly preferred?
Is koca always 'husband'? I wrote spouse but now am thinking of the phrase karı koca...
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In this sentence, does the person doing the saying have to be the same as the person whose husband is doing the hitting?