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it is actually not a surprise that a word has so many umlauts; as there is something called the vowel harmony in Turkish :) So you either have only umlauts and no umlauts ;)
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Ő and Ű are the longer forms of Ö and Ü. I don't know how we say them in English.
Edit: According to Wikipedia, they're double accents. :D
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Well, we even have ú and é and á and combined letters like sz, gy, ty, ly, cs, dz, zs or even dzs.
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I guess they were… puts on glasses Hungary for more, haha! o.o cough
How about.. görüşürüz Gümüşlük'te? Can we say that? meaning "See you in Gümüşlük" (near Bodrum) :)
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Dang it! Now there's no room for Finland on Duo…
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Oooo now I get why my hairdresser made fun of me when I showed off my Turkish words in the chair! That bastard :D
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How does this word break up into components? (I mean roots and endings.)
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Görmek is the rootmost word. "To see" Remove infinitive -mek to get to the root of the verb, gör-.
Gör-üş- adds on a mutual-reciprocal ending to the root verb. ("To see each other, meet")
Görüş-ür adds the wide tense/aorist, implying a generally done activity.
Görüşür-üz adds the first person plural. So "We see each other".
So it means "we'll see each other [later]!" Hence is used as a parting.
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Aorist is the "wide tense" in Turkish and covers quite a lot of times ranging from past to future. Don't get too caught up in the idea that it maps to simple present in English, because it doesn't.
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http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/aoristpos.htm Give this page a look over, don't read too closely if you don't feel like it, but it'll give you a nice idea of how broadly the aorist can be used.
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OK wow this is confusing... uh... thanks.
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so do voiced consonants get unvoiced at the end ?
Basically does z sound s at the end of the word?
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Right, so is it me who hears it wrong or does it sound like "s" in the audio track here?
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Try clicking the speaker button to hear a different TTS compare two endings with Z vs S. The Z sound is there.
Turkish does do syllable final devoicing for stops and c/ç in some words, generally of two syllables, and it's reflected in the spelling. E.g. kebap vs. kebabım, vücut vs vücudum, ağaç vs ağacım, and erkek vs erkeğim (where the g undergoes an extra process to make it a glide or vowel lengthener).
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I see!! Thank you so much for your answers :)
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can we say "gururam seni" ?? i think it would be more precise equivalent for "see you"
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no "gururam" is not a word in Turkish. closest is "I see you": Seni görürüm. But this is not something you say when you leave
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then i guess "Seni görürüm" means "i (can) see you (right now)" correct me if i am wrong and thanks in advance
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No
I see you (right now:): Seni görüyorum
I can see you: Seni görebilirim
I can see you (right now): Seni görebiliyorum
If you are patient you'll learn all these tenses in this course
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"-yor" doesn't change according to vowel harmony if this is what you are asking
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That is more likely to be 'güle güle'. 'Görüşürüz.' hints a promise of encountering again.
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I dont get is app making fun of me or what? This is a voice test, and each time i sayin this right but in every such voice test the app is telling me that I'm wrong? Why? I dont get it
