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Topic: Turkish

"A bottle of water please."

Translation:Bir şişe su, lütfen.

3 years ago

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https://www.duolingo.com/DanMan101
DanMan101
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Should "Bitane şişe su lütfen" be accepted?

3 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/AlexinNotTurkey
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Nope. First off, you would have to say "bir tane." Saying "bi tane" is slang. However, both "tane" (piece) and "şişe" are words used to count objects and you cannot have two before one noun. :)

3 years ago
https://www.duolingo.com/MariaElena736926
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Sise means bottle?

1 year ago
https://www.duolingo.com/AlexinNotTurkey
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Yep

1 year ago
https://www.duolingo.com/danadalloway
danadalloway
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Why not şişede? Because it is a compound noun?

6 months ago
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