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- "Bu senin için önemli mi?"
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Would there be another way to say 'important to you' or is it just the same as 'important for you'?
sana önemli would be only used in very daily speech. dative and için (for) cannot always be used interchangeably. as far as i can say you cannot use dative in the meaning of 'for' with adjectives/nouns (otherwise it sounds very colloquial), you can only use it with verbs.
"Sana önemli" is not idiomatic in Turkish. "For" is the only option I think.
Yes (it would be a little closer to "trivial" than "not important"). You will hear "önemli değil" more often though :)
Look at the above sentence. Take off the question particle mi and change bu to o. :)
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At first I thought the question was trivial – to change bu to o is the logical thing to do. But why drop the question particle? It is still a question.
What would happen if you get rid of için here? The sentence wouldn't make any sense?
Nope :) "için" means "for." If you drop "senin" it would be like saying "This is important for" in English. It doesn't make any sense.
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What difference is there between önemli and özel? In another exercise in this lesson it said "özel" for important, but I thought "özel" meant "special"?
"mühim" is extremely uncommon and I would really highly suggest sticking to "önemli" (I have been studying Turkish for 5 years, and I just learned "mühim" for the first time a few days ago)
Five years of study and already an authority in matters related to the Turkish language. I am so jealous!!!
It was a lot of hard work and I still have a lot of room for improvement :)
If you are not in Turkey, do you use Turkish for work? How do you keep it oiled?
I have a lot of friends both in the States and in Turkey that I am in close contact with. I often read in Turkish and watch Turkish shows and videos occasionally.
the alternative is given as 'significant' so why does Duo mark Is this significant for you as wrong ?
