"The skirt is on the shoe."
Translation:Etek ayakkabının üzerinde.
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What is the stance on including "papuç" as shoe? Is it too old timey or villagey?
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it is really outdated, I am not saying we won't add it, we can talk about it, but really nobody says that anymore
I put "Etek ayakkabında" and got it wrong. I'm trying to understand why. Is it considered an incomplete sentence? Or maybe it just doesn't work that way grammatically. I guess I thought of "Etek ayakkabının üzerinde" as more literally "The skirt is on top of the shoe."
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'Etek ayakkabında' means 'The skirt is in your shoe.'
ayakkabı(shoe) - n(2nd singular person possession marker) - da(locative case marker)
ayakkabı=shoe
ayakkabın=your shoe
ayakkabının=you shoe (genitive case)
Many postpositions take the genitive case.
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but here the sentence say "is on THE shoe", so shouldn't it be ayakkabı + (ı)n (genitive) = ayakkabın ?
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'on your shoe' and 'on the shoe' look the same in Turkish.
the shoe (genitive):
ayakkabı_n(buffer)_ın(genitive)
your shoe (genitive):
ayakkabı_n(your)_ın(genitive)