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"If I encounter my doctor, I will thank her."
Translation:Doktorum ile karşılaşsam ona teşekkür ederim.
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It would be nice if someone could give some input about your question. I also understand karsilassam the way you do, implying that I am not likely to encounter my doctor. If there is a good chance of meeting the doctor, I feel that kasilasirsam should be used. (Sorry, no Turkish keyboard). I think the given Turkish sentence should be translated as "If I were to encounter my doctor, I would thank her"
yes. buluşmak is a planned thing (meet with). On the other hand you encounter (karşılaşmak) someone by chance
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"... teşekkür edeceğim" olsa daha doğru sanki. will -> -ecek -acak bağını kırmamak lazım bence.
hayır, if clause'larda will-ecek bağı diye bir şey beklenemez. burada bir varsayım var
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It also seems that whether a conditional clause is real or hypothetical is a matter of interpretation and context, so a larger number of acceptable treatments of these kinds of sentences ought to be recognized,
Why is the second part ın the future - I will - when there is no aorist in the first part?
My understanding is that you use -irsam if the meeting is likely to take place (perhaps you meet regularly) and -sam if you are unlikely to encounter the person. I am not too good on this section so maybe some contributor with more knowledge than me can comment here.
You could say "Benim doktorum" but "benim" (my) is unnecessary as you already added "my" in the word "doktor-u-M" with M in the end.
"Ben" shouldn't be used as there is no "I" in the first sentence.
Correcting myself:
Ben can be used as "Ben karşılaşırsam". But it is unnecessary. Same reason as above, ben is in the word as suffix. " karşılaşırsa-M"
In another sentence in this section, there was an explanation that an object does not receive a possessive suffix, only a subject does. Why is 'benim doktor' not ok?
Huh? Could you copy the link to that here please.
The possessor gets the genitive case and the possessed thing takes the possessive suffixes "benim doktorum"
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I just read the explanation on that (It was for the sentence "Bizim eve varirsa haber ver" , but I can't go back there now. A person asked, why it is not "Bizim evimize varirsa" instead of "bizim eve". But they didn't say that objects don't receive poss. suffixes. They said if possessive adjectives are used the following noun don't get a poss.suffix. They gave there the examples : "Benim evim burada" but "benim evi görmelisin", which may have been misunderstood as talking from objects in general. I understood that in another way then a-m-j, but I would like to verify. Perhaps you can clarify that for us now.
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Yup it's difficult to catch the difference between the two. Bizim eve varırsa haber ver vs doktorum ile karşılaşsam... Now i am asking whether is it possible to say: benim doktora eve varirsa haber ver! ?
Is this a real or hypothetical condition?
V + -se/-sa form is used for hypothetical conditions
This one seems to be a real condition to me.
I would submit the following translation instead and get an incorrect answer as a result it seems... (I had to pick from the list so I have located the above translation but I don't think it is a good one)
Doktoruma rastlarsam ona teşekkür edeceğim.
Karşılaşmak. Tanışmak. Buluşmak. Can someone please explain when to use which
- Karşılaşmak (an unplanned meeting, to run into one another)
- Buluşmak (a planned meeting, dating)
- Tanışmak (to know one another, or to meet a new person)
what means karşılaşsam ?
"if I encounter"
- karşılaş- "encounter, come across, meet (by chance)"
- -sa- "if"
- -m "I"
