"Bir ay otuz gündür."
Translation:One month is thirty days.
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I appreciate that duolingo requires fairly specific translations, it's making me have to really learn the details. But that's just me.
-dür is mainly used to state facts. To emphasize an unchangeable common piece of knowledge. "Bir ay otuz gündür" and that's that. Of course there's another fact, that "Bır ay otuz bir gündür" etc.
"Bugün cuma" is different, because you are emphasizing the fact by using the word "bugün", which practically means "this day" and no other is Friday.
I hope this helps. It is helping me.
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Yes, but they're not interchangeable. It depends on the last vowel of the word:
- kedi + dir = kedidir
- yıl + dir = yıldır
- kum + dir = kumdur
- gül + dir = güldür
These were easy. You use the same vowel and bob's your uncle. But for the remaining four vowels, we use the closest ones:
- araba + dir = arabadır
- ev + dir = evdir
- kol + dir = koldur
- göl + dir = göldür
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You have paraphrased the thing. It is not the exact translation anymore. In Turkish, that sentence would be: Bir ayda otuz gün vardır.
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I think that's the tricky thing about DuoLingo - "one month is thirty days" sounds rather odd in English; should we translate it directly, or give the natural equivalent?
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you should give a natural equivalent, but without too much interpretation. "there are thirty days in a month" is OK, as you know the course is very new and of course there are missing alternatives. Keep reporting
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Still confusind about the -DIr suffix's fact purpose :P Sorry, still hard for me to understand in which case you can use it.
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Actually, only four months in a year have 30 days. :-) And seven months have 31 - almost twice more months!
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"One month is thirty days" does sound odd in English, but it is grammatically correct. I believe in providing natural equivalents for the most part, but when trying to learn a language, I don't think it is wise to stray too far from the literal meaning. Taken to extremes that could lead to serious communication problems! Has anyone ever played "The Telephone Game?" It is also known as "Chinese Whispers." If you haven't heard of it, you can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers. Reference to that game may be considered a bit OT, but I add it here to make a case for the more literal translations we are given in this duolingo course.
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Is there a way to say one month has thirty days?
Does the sentence "bir ayın otuz günü var" make any sense at all?