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- "Görüşürüz!"
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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 ;)
Yes, and here I thought Swedish loved umlauts a bit too much, but now Turkish takes the prize!
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
@Danmoller: No, a tild is this: ~ (it doesn't exist in Hungarian). The ő and ű are simply the long ö and ü (because in Hungarian long vowels are written with an accent).
Well, we even have ú and é and á and combined letters like sz, gy, ty, ly, cs, dz, zs or even dzs.
How about.. görüşürüz Gümüşlük'te? Can we say that? meaning "See you in Gümüşlük" (near Bodrum) :)
Oooo now I get why my hairdresser made fun of me when I showed off my Turkish words in the chair! That bastard :D
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.
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.
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.
so do voiced consonants get unvoiced at the end ?
Basically does z sound s at the end of the word?
Right, so is it me who hears it wrong or does it sound like "s" in the audio track here?
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).
I do too. I don't know what's going on with this app but it seems pretty weird. I mean it's fun but it gets stuff wrong when you do it right like me I do a lot of stuff right but it makes me do it wrong like autocorrect
Can some of you guys follow me because I'm trying to get an achievement. If you do thanks for help if you don't I'm fine.
can we say "gururam seni" ?? i think it would be more precise equivalent for "see you"
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
then i guess "Seni görürüm" means "i (can) see you (right now)" correct me if i am wrong and thanks in advance
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
"-yor" doesn't change according to vowel harmony if this is what you are asking
That is more likely to be 'güle güle'. 'Görüşürüz.' hints a promise of encountering again.
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
There's a problem with the audio of application. It doesn't have voice!! Does anyone have the same problem!?
