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- "Sen hastasın veya açsın."
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This seems more of a question to me than a statement. How would you say "are you sick or are you hungry?"
Is this pronounced correctly in the audio? Sounds nore like atsin both in the slow and fast version
You realize that ç sounds like English ch sound or what some call tsh sound.
https://www.duolingo.com/comment/7702767 Alphabet Pronunciation
Actually I've same question about pronunciation of "acsin". I heard it atsin and couldn't recognize the word but i wrote it anyway as i heard. The funny thing is that the program gave me a correct answer
Nope, you would see the question suffix (-mi) come in play in this case
"Sen hasta mısın, aç mı?"
"you are sick or hungry" as a statement doesn't make any sense. what does that mean?
It means: the speaker sees someone who doesn't look well (tired or something), so the speaker asks the person "you're sick or hungry". I think.
Nope...in theory you could be both in this sentence (really dependent on the context). To get that meaning, you would have to use "yoksa" or "ya...ya da"
Grammatically it is a question more than a statement soo the options is missing some words
JamesAdam, you have an nice explanation in the first three comments above. Should read it.
Normally hasta means sick and ac means hungry in this phrase we are talking to more than one person we use sin .bcz we have you .
KarimDjell, "you" in English is singular or plural. Here the Turkish sentence says that there is only one person, because of the suffix "sin".
