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What is this actually trying to say? That he hit the door very hard? (The literal English translation is kind of weird.)
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Does this mean he banged the door or did he hit it with his fist?
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From above discussion I get impression that both translations: "He hit the door very badly", and "He hit at the door very badly" should be correct. But, the second one was marked wrong. o.o .... please clarify :)
In English, we can't say "to hit at." :)
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Thank Alex :) Ohh! Should I hit out at my poor English >:-(
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I'm confused about indicating tense when using the narrative. To me vur- looks like a verb stem without any tense suffix at all. Naively I would have expected vururmuş.
Could anyone throw any light on my confusion?
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"-muş" alone on the verb stem indicates a past event that was not witnessed directly. İn this case, the person telling us this might have heard about the event from someone else, or they might have come to that conclusion from the sound it made. In any case, it is always in the past.
However, "-muş" can be added to other tense suffixes like "-A/Ir" as you suggested. "Vururmuş" would mean "he (apparently) used to (habitually) hit". In other words, "-A/IrmIş" indicates a past habit or repeated action that you never witnessed yourself. For example, you might have heard talk around town about some man slamming a door on a regular basis.
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Thank you very much! :-) So, you can add "-muş" to a tense suffix if you want extra tense information, but since "-muş" already implies things happened in the past, there's no requirement to add a tense suffix?
