"Sen büyük bir elma yersin."
Translation:You eat a big apple.
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Nope, "bir" normally comes between the adjective and noun
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I wrote "one big apple" instead of "a big apple".Why is it wrong?I was thinking that bir means one.
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I wrote you are eating but this is present simple or is it still present continuous?
It is in simple present tense. In present continuous it would be " sen büyük bir elma yiyorsun" or "sen büyük bir elma yemektesin"
Turkish people don't apply this grammer all the time.. so for them, it's not a proplem to say it like duolingo
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You are eating... marked wrong. Typical Duolingo idiocy. They have not taught different present tenses, but they expect us to guess the "correct" answer. This sort of thing happens far too often. Take yourself seriously, Duolingo, and clean up the rough edges.
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sen yersin: you eat. in english we use the same verbs for all pronouns, so i explain this in french for you. sen yersin; tu manges, sen; tu mang; yer , sin;es.
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is this construction constant in Turkish : subject -determinative - article - direct object - verb ?
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yes. if there is an adjective, you have to use it. "Sen büyük elma yersin" doesn't make much sense
The verb would be different in this case "yiyorsun"
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Well, I think the arrangement of words in Turkish is very different than both Arabic (my first language), and English, really difficult!! cok zor
Is there a way to modify 'elma' to mean 'an apple' rather than 'apple' or 'the apple'
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No one says "You eat a big apple." We say "You are eating a big apple." If Duo wanted it to be a command then the answer should be "Eat a big apple."
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The fact that no-one says it, doesn't make it incorrect. If you ask a question "What do I do every day at noon?", that would be a perfectly valid answer.