"Araba beşinci katta duruyor."
Translation:The car is on the fifth floor.
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"durmak" is kind of a mysterious verb. It can also mean "to stand" and it just kind of means that the car is sitting on that floor. You don't have to use this verb of course :)
himmm.. i think turk use it also as "looks like"..
she looks happy= o mutlu duruyor (or something); I am not sure
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She remains happy. To me durmak as the sense of not moving. https://en.glosbe.com/tr/en/durmak
"Araba beşinci katta duruyor." Translation: The car is on the fifth floor.
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Edited answer thanks to my Cypriot family - Sotirakis1
(07/05/2019) - Edited.
Lift =asansör. Kat=Floor. Kat-da= On floor. Sound mutation changes da into ta because of the t in kat. You then get kat-ta=katta=On floor. Durmak=(To stop,to stand). Duracak=(He will stop, he will stand). There is no acak/ecek in the sentence. Literally translated ‘The car is standing on the fifth floor’, or ‘the car is stopping on the fifth floor’. However, in English, we just state ‘the car is on the fifth floor’.
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The suffix -DA will become -TA after the letters ‘p, ç, t, k, f, h, s, and ş’
I used the locative case suffix - kat + ta.
"Araba beşinci katta duruyor."
Translation: The car is on the fifth floor.
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The frustrating part is that the gerunds seem to change everything we thought we new. I estimate that I will be at intermediate level for a fair number of years. Turkish is not as easy as people make it to be:(
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"Vazgeçilmezdim" wrong. " asla vazgeçmeyeceğim" veya "asla pes etmeyeceğim" Selamlar.
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There does not seem to be a coherent method to choose these discussion forums for any particular sentence. Unless the particular sentence arrives ad hoc I will never know what you have written about “gibi” yoksa “için”. Duo has been going for quite a few years, but I feel that the format still needs tweaking to get to the no.1 spot.
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Hello Hilmi. I have managed to find your lecture on için and gibi. Thanks, it was very useful.
"The car is stopping on the fifth floor" yazdım doğru kabul etti. Ama türkçe öğrenmek isteyen kişilerin bizim gibi nasıl sıkıntı yaşadıklarını görmek için girdiğimde "stopping" yada "standing" yazmadığını görünce bende şaşırdım. Biz sıklıkla "araba beşinci katta" deriz. Neyse zamanla daha iyi anlaşıcaz herhalde. Bu uygulamayı çok beyensemde arada anlam veremediğim ama anlamaya çalıştığım garip farklılıklar var.
In English you have to say "on the fifth floor" not "in". You are "in" a room, an elevator, a cave, etc. but "on" a floor, the ground, a platform, etc.
Why do we have "duruyor" in this sentence? Duruyor means stopping not standing? or am i wrong about this?