"Güzelim ama iyi değilim."

Translation: I am beautiful but I am not good.

[JamesTWils]

Can "iyi" also mean morally good, or does it only mean doing well?

[orde90]

yes it also means morally good.

[JamesTWils]

Thank you, both for this and for your other answers to my other questions.

[jax24]

Can "I am not good" also be translated as "İyiyim değil"?

[Selcen_Ozturk]

no, the suffix is attached to "değil"

[ali2569]

does "İyiyim değil" hold a poetical meaning or is it for being funny or makes any sense at all ??

[Selcen_Ozturk]

it doesn't make any sense at all

[SiriusBlack99]

İt translated is 'İyi değilim.'

[fatsi_x]

sirius black!!!

[Thetangibleghost]

Same duolingo, same

[nirmona]

Can I say "Güzelim fakat iyi değilim."? Is there any difference between "ama" and "fakat"?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

"fakat" is a lot more official sounding and isn't used terribly often in spoken Turkish. :)

[almira541792]

Güzel has no correct translation, it can be
Pretty, ok, good etc

[AlexinNotTurkey]

"güzel" when talking about a person (and what this sentence is probably doing) only refers to physical appearance. We accept "beautiful" "pretty" "and "good-looking" :)

[ZL321]

Does anyone hear an 'l' sound in the middle of 'ama' causing it to sound like 'amla'?

[Selcen_Ozturk]

no, in this sentence it sort of sounds like "amma" though, I don't know if this was intentional, but we do this a lot for emphasis when we speak (only for this word)

[navixer]

When we want to make it longer and give more emphasis but it is not written as a rule and it is very colloquial. Güzelim ammaaaaaaa iyi değilim. Maybe we can apply it to other double consonant words like "salllaaaaaa", "yallaaaaa" or even "haydaaaaa"

[MuhammadNagi]

Actually the Arabic word, which I think "ama" is borrowed from, is pronounced exactly like "amma".

[melis7992]

Any tips to pronounce words like "değilim"? I am having a lot of trouble with that ğ!!

[navixer]

It basically makes the preceding vowel longer. Hear this: "ağaç" meaning "tree" It sounds like "aaç"
http://tr.forvo.com/word/a%C4%9Fa%C3%A7/#tr
and "yağmur" meaning "rain" It sounds like "yaamur"
http://tr.forvo.com/word/ya%C4%9Fmur/#tr

[jesuslme]

usually the ğ sounds like a very light "y" between light vowels (e, i, ü, ö). So here you could pronounce the "değ" a bit like the English "day". Between dark vowels you don't hear the ğ at all, like in ağaç. You simply say a'aç.

[mooncats]

Can anyone tell what the word 'değilim' means? It's mentioned that it is "I am not". But where is "I"? It should be "Ben' somewhere hidden

[navixer]

"Değil" means "not", "güzel" means "beautiful".
Değilim is I'm not. It is composed like this: Değil + personal suffix. Değil+im = Not + I am(literal translation). Değil + sin = You're not. Güzel+im= I'm beautiful. Güzeliz= We are beautiful. Güzeller= they are beautiful. Değiller= they are not.
These can be applied to everywhere in Turkish. Zengin: rich. Zenginim, zenginsin, zengin, zenginiz, zenginsiniz, zenginler.

[mooncats]

Thank you so much! That's most helpful! And the other suffixies of the negative are (he/she/it is not) = değil or değildir???; (we are not) = değiliz???; (you are not) = değilsiniz?? Am I right?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

You are :)

[vahid6956]

Is "I'm not good" popular in english??

[pat611094]

I am English, it's ok to say I'm not good in English, it means I am not well, as if you are not feeling well. It doesn't usually mean I am bad. As in a bad person.

[oldestguru]

not really

[Sweetie131866]

Grrrr, need to watch the android spell check.. changed "good" to "food" so i lost a

[Lizamarrie]

Fine and well should be ok, I guess. Isn't that right?

[memo135904]

I thought they said mama

[Deadlypanda678]

isn't good and well the same thing????????????