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- "Sen Ayasofya'yı biliyorsun."
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''tanımak'' is recognizing, knowing someone. ''bilmek'' is knowing something, information etc. But context is important to define them.
Not quite. It's correct to say Ich kenne dieses Buch, but in Turkish you must say Biz kitabı biliyoruz.
Not quite. Tanmak is only used for people. Conocer is used for people and things.
sorry if this has been taught before, but what does the "yı" do ?, what is the difference between "Ayasofya" and "Ayasofya'yı" ?
it is the accusative case, used for specific direct objects :)
oh yea sorry this is accusative, the ' threw me off, and we added a buffer -y because Ayasofya ends in a vowel. Sorry again but it confuses me that we add ' before the accusative suffix to some words but not others
What does this mean? That the person knows facts about it? How would you say, "You know of the Hagia Sofia?""
"Sen Ayasofya'yı biliyorsun" means you know about it or have heard of it.
"Sen Ayasofya'yı iyi biliyorsun" means you know quite a few facts about it.
"Sen Ayasofya'yı biliyor musun?" could EITHER be asking if you've heard of it or if you have knowledge of it, but more likely the former.
If you wanted to specify asking whether I have a good knowledge of it, you could ask "Sen Ayasofya'yı iyi bilir misin?" or "iyi biliyor musun?"
"Sen Ayasofya'yı duydun mu hiç?" means "have you ever heard of the Hagia Sophia before?" Like, heard it referenced.
It's greek for "Saint Sophie", so you skip the article just as you would in "You know where Saint John is.", talking about a church. You can also see it as a proper name if you like...
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The name is originally Greek; because of this, there are many different ways to write it in the Roman alphabet, which English and Turkish both use. Hagia and Haghia, Sophia and Sofia are all in relatively common use.
Why is it that certain verbs in Turkish seem to be inclined to use the continuous tense? Bilmek, Sevmek, I always seem to see them as biliyorum, seviyorum etc. Is there anything specific to their type of verbs, is it just a casualty of the language? It's like this sentence is saying "You are knowing Hagia Sophia", right?
In the other comment branch there was an explanation - if you know something generally, you also know it at the moment, so you use "iyor". Unlike walk and walking - if walk to somewhere from time to time, it doesn't mean you are walking there right now.
So, is this sentence speaking about the person or the museum (mosque/church)?
It used to be a church of Constantinople. After the fall of the City by Ottomans, it has been converted to a mosque and later (during Kemal leadership) it became museum.
