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- "The woman drinks water."
"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
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.
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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".
Hahhahaha its kadin bu kadin ya allahallah ben turkum jsbjsbdndbhdbs hahahhahahahahhah
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.
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.
Slowly getting used to this haha. Not used to switching words around. :)
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.
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".
Icir is a general present sense...iciyor is an active present sense that happens right now. But in english there is no difference. So...when translating "the woman drinks water" icer and iciyor are both correct. Correct?
Wellll içiyor is present progressive, which we often translate to 'is drinking' (and not 'drinks') but it can mean both, but I think the former more often than the latter.
Some languages don't use their progressive tense much and then our continuous tense may be translated to such a language's simple present tense, but Turkish is not such a language. Turkish does use their progressive tense often. So "is drinkıng" = "içiyor" as we will learn later.
