"The woman drinks water."
Translation:Kadın su içer.
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İçer is indicative(third singular person,present tense), while iç is imperative(second singualr person).
Because its drinks water and not drink. When it's drink they use iç and when it's drinks they use içer.
Not always, in English we only have two forms "drink" and "drinks" for simple present tense, but there are more forms for "drink" in Turkish depending on which pronoun would be used. "Iç!" is the imperative form used when we are telling someone to "Drink!"
I drink = ben içerim
you drink (singular) = sen içersin
he or she or it drinks = o içer
we drink = biz içeriz
you drink (plural) = siz içersiniz
they drink = onlar icerler
https://www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?&D1=31&T1=i%C3%A7mek
"The woman" = "kadın"
Look at the top of the page.
Be careful Iı is not the same letter as İi
The word "ic" is the imperative form as in "Drink!"
The word "icer" can also be used with a plural noun.
My Turkish friend from basic told me how sentience structure is different in Turkish. He did warn me it would be frustrating to learn because of that.
Because
Bir Kadın = A woman Kadın = The woman
Bir literally means 'one' You can only use Bir if you mean a specific woman.
You said your last sentence backwards : "the" is specific and so you cannot use "bir" if you mean a specific woman. You can only use "bir" if you mean any one woman and not a specific woman.
Why is it necessary to write 'Kadın' and not 'kadin'? Is there a significant difference between i and ı? If yes, then what is the difference?
They are completely different letters and not used instead of each other. e.g. "kır" means "break" but "kir" means "dirt".
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Bir= a, an
We don't use it when the sentence has "The"
A Woman = Bir Kadın
The Woman, Woman = Kadın
I think a better question would have been, why do you think 'bir' should be used here?
So that is the same question I asked, where is "bir"? Because the English sentence presented for translation has the article "a" and in the past lessons "bir" was used for the word "a", as in "a apple". Since I know that "bir" is "one", I am thinking in the previous lesson, "bir elma" was literally saying "one apple" versus "an apple" as in "a woman". So, a follow-up question is, when would one know if "a" is being used as an article vs identifying a singular instance?
It would be a or an unless context made it important to say one. Everyone knows that a or an refers to no more than one any way. The English sentence in this lesson uses "the", scroll to the top of this page.
Why is ' Kadın içer su' wrong? Is this the typical construction in Turkish?
usually word order can be changed and is often changed in Turkish.However this one would be odd a little bit.But if we get technical :subject-object-verb.
Is there no definite article in turkish ? Is there no translation to "the" in turkish ?
There are no articles in Turkish, however a direct object would have a suffix added only when definite. This Accusative case suffix is not used when the direct object is indefinite. On Duolingo, you will see "bir" added in front of the subject when it is indefinite, so you can safely use "the" when the subject is not preceded by "bir".
The i with a dot the ı without a dot are two different letters in Turkish and thus are pronounced differently. Simply don't think of them as related - just like e and a are different letters. Kadın is not pronounced "ka-deen", which is how it would be pronounced if it were spelled with the dotted i.
Because it is out of order. The ordered sentence is "Kadın su içer." The inverted but acceptable sentence is "Su içer kadın." No more alternatives.
What "runs before a noun" ? Forgive me, that is what google translate gave me... separately the words came out as " worker before there closed" which is why I cannot trust google translate at all.
Verb is last in Turkish.
Hey! What is the differencee between kadın, kadınımsın and kadınım? Thanks
Kadın = Woman
Kadınımsın = You are my woman
Kadınım => My woman OR I am a woman (depending on what you want to mean)
The sentence is out of order. Also, the correct spelling must be "içer". Besides that, pay attention to the use of "ı" and "i".
No translation requires following the proper word order of each language. The verb must come last in Turkish: subject object verb. So it must be "kadın su içer." Also, note the undotted i in "kadın". ı ıs a separate letter from i with a different pronunciation.
There is no word for "the" in Turkish, especially for the noun as a subject, but there is a suffix that you can add to a direct object that makes it definite. No articles, so when the word by itself is translated to English then you add "the" for English and Duolingo adds " bir" when Duolingo wants you to use "a"' instead.
The form "içeriz" is the wrong conjugation of the verb for this sentence, like putting "are" for "is".
Why is it Onlar içer while in grammar it says it's Onlar içerler? which one is really correct?
Well, "içerler" is the 3rd person plural verb form for "onlar", but they usually don't bother to put the subject pronoun with it. When they do put "onlar" then they don't bother to put the plural ending on the verb. So, "Onlar içer" is quite commonly used and is considered correct, but they also commonly use "İçerler" to mean the same thing. Notice that there are two different letters: İi which is used in this verb and Iı which appears in other Turkish words.
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There is no h in "kadın", the letter İi is different from Iı and both are different from English Ii, so that makes two spelling errors, plus the verb must go last in Turkish. "The woman drinks water." must be translated as "Kadın su içer." There was a third spelling error since c and ç are also separate letters in Turkish and each letter has a separate sound.
Turkish does not use articles. On Duolingo, "bir" is used when they want you to put the indefinite article "a" for the subject, otherwise put "the". For a direct object, Turkish adds an Accusative suffix to the word only if it will need the definite article "the", otherwise use the indefinite form.
