"Bir asır yüz yıldır."
Translation:A century is a hundred years.
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"Asır" comes from Arabic and "yüzyıl" has a Turkish origin, literally means hundred years. They both mean century in modern Turkish. However, you can hear yüzyıl more often.
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İn Arabic, "عصر" means "age" or "era" so its not even a precise borrowing which I think is funny.
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I got it but.......
Is it accepted to say (each century has one hundred years) It is more suitable i feel
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That's a correct sentence, but it is not the translation of the Turkish sentence above. The meaning is different.
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İn general factual statements which word gets the dır suffix? Also how losely is the suffix used? For example can a friend use it to lie, or a politician to lie about statitistics?
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Can someone explain to me why the "r" in "asır" (or "hayır") is pronounced "sh"?
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It is not plural. The -dir is there to emphasize the fact that 100 years make a century.
Yil remains singular. A native speaker should confirm whether this is mandatory, or if yillar also is possible here. I believe not.
I am no native speaker, but it must remain in the singular here. Nouns never ever take the plural suffix after numbers.
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That's pretty strange. I could never think you are not a native speaker :/