"Gencim ve güzelim."
Translation:I am young and beautiful.
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Yes, it is. When you have two objects you can only conjugate the last one, (not an obligated rule) because then it's turning into a verb from a noun and one verb is enough in a sentence. Just like how you would say it in English, "I am young and I am beautiful" instead of "I am young and beautiful".
I think this is pre-voicing, which I think is pretty common in many languages, whether it’s written into the spelling or not. The unvoiced p, t, k, ç pick up voicing (larynx vibrates during sound) from the following vowel.
What got me there was realising that the “c” here sounds to me like it’s pronounced as the affricate /tʃ/, which English usually writes as “ch”, like “church”, and ç as the equivalent voiced affricate /dʒ/, like the English “gym”.
But that’s just my guess from listening. I don’t actually know what I’m talking about, but I find it helpful to have some sort of framework.
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I just love how one word (güzelim) can mean 3 words in English. "I am beautiful". :) :) :)
The last vowel in "confused" is 'e', but we are talking nonsense here. http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=confused http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=confuse To orde90 the Turkish goes by the last vowel written, as in Turkish they are all pronounced.
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Actually, the word Deutschländer does exist and could be used for somebody who is German (though it's wuite uncommon). Apart from that there also is a type of sausage called Deutschländer, and I think the word Almancılar also is translated as Deutschländer (though I might be wrong with that one).
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@ManuelKoellner: I am a native speaker too and if you look closely you might see that I mentioned that it is uncommon. I only know it because I know some guys from Namibia who speak German and call Germans from Germany Deutschländer. Apparently it's common there among those that speak German. Almancılar is (according to a Turkish friend of mine) the word some Turks use to talk about other Turks that live in Germany.
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