"Geçen yıllarda bazı üzücü olaylar yaşandı."
Translation:Some sad events happened in recent years.
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"The last years" is a terrible translation. Should have been recent years or past years.
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Strangely, this version is not accepted.
In the last years some sad events happened
Many variants are missing throughout the later stages of the tree, but not, usually, something as routine as this one.
I realize nothing is being updated in Turkish at the moment but perhaps in the future this language will be actively maintained, and the final stages of the tree finished.
What's meant by "the last years"? That only makes sense in English if it's "the last years (of something)", but I thought "geçen" was more like "previous."
It means that they were experienced by someone (and in they happened to someone or someone lived through them). It is like saying "some events were lived"
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If you know any grammar or linguistics terminology this is called "the passive voice".
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oldu
is also accepted here. I think their version is better but they don't insist on it.
In the last years of what? The century/epoch/reign/millenium? If nothing, then the translation should be 'in recent years'.
yaşandı? Why not olundu? I thought yaşamak meant "to live" and olmak "to be"?
In the Last years some sad events happened - exactly the same meaning but marked wrong again! :((
Hello Deborah
In the Last years some sad events happened - exactly the same meaning but marked wrong again! :((
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In fact, the required English translation of this sentence is itself a sad event.
this course's quality is suddenly dropping towards the end. a lot of weird sentences with weird translations and missing options
Hello Sayel.Abbadi
Some sad events was had in the last years, neden yanlış?
"Some sad events were had in the last years."
This should work.
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Sometimes Duolingo seems to insist on a passive voice in the English version and sometimes it opts for what is more 'natural' English. Well, in English we are actually told to avoid the passive voice is possible. In any case, I think both versions ought to be accepted. As in this case, "In the last years [which perhaps is more natural as "in recent years"] some sad events were experienced/lived."
If you are writing English it is better to use the active voice, and avoid the passive. However if you are translating, you should translate an active verb into the active voice. Yasandi is active, so 'happened' is correct.
"Geçen yıllarda bazı üzücü olaylar yaşandı"
Personally, I think one of the biggest fallacy in this sentence is, given the sentence alone, one cannot be fully certain whether or not the subject here is a third person or a collective noun.
For example, In recent years, some sad events happened ( to "Ali" as in third person/ to "Chernobyl" as a city)
In this case, as it has been pointed out by someone that it's a third person noun, why was the optional "O" omitted here for third person noun given the possibility that it may be misinterpreted the other way ?
Altamah, in the Turkish sentence we have the verb "yaşmak"="to live" at the passive voice. Passive voice implies that we don't know who or what lived that sad events (conf. the TIPS). Therefore i think we cannot use the verb "to happen".
"Geçen yıllarda bazı üzücü olaylar yaşandı." Translation: Some sad events happened in the last years.
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In the last years some sad events were lived.
In the last years some sad events were had.
Yaşamak (verb) "to live."
Two correct other English answers accepted by Duo.