"I can cry when I am happy."
Translation:Sevindiğim zaman ağlayabilirim.
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By the way, my answer was "ben mutluyken ağlayabilirim" and it was accepted.
It is not, though if you don't say 'zaman', you need to say 'sevindiğimde'.
I don't believe so. My answer was corrected to "sevindiğimde ağlayabilirim".
sevindiğimde -or- sevindiğim zaman.
I don't think you can just use "sevindiğim" in this sentence without either -de or zaman.
sevinmek: to be happy
sevindik: that ... is happy
sevindiğim: that I am happy
sevindiğim zaman: the time that I am happy; when I am happy
ah thanks, but can ben mutlurken (or the like) be an acceptable substitute?
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I think, mutlu olduğumda ağlayabilirim, and mutlu olduğum zaman ağlayabilirim, both of them are correct.
What is the difference between mutluyken and sevindiğim though? Is there a distinction in meaning?
In this sentence you can use it interchangeable. -(y)ken is the ending for while. If there is only a time indication without a verb, then it will be translated to when. Mutluyken here has the meaning of the time in which you are happy. So Sevindiğimde ağlayabilirim = Mutluyken ağlalabilirim.
why not mutludigimda instead of mutluyken ? They are both when. What's the difference ?
Because -dik- can only attach to verb stems, and "mutlu" is an adjective. You can use -(y)ken with it, but you would need an auxiliary verb [and to fix the vowel harmony] to use a -dik- form.
Combining ability with the continuous tense carries the meaning that someone "can and currently is" doing something. It's hard/impossible to express in English without context, but I don't see any reason why a currently crying person couldn't say this sentence! Shall we "Report" it and see what happens?