"Bu senin için önemli mi?"
Translation:Is this important for you?
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Would there be another way to say 'important to you' or is it just the same as 'important for you'?
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"Sana önemli" is not idiomatic in Turkish. "For" is the only option I think.
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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.
Yes (it would be a little closer to "trivial" than "not important"). You will hear "önemli değil" more often though :)
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Makes sense; I feel like "not important" is more common in English than "unimportant"
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.
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What would happen if you get rid of için here? The sentence wouldn't make any sense?
It wouldn't make sense as stated by Ektoraskan above :)
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Can you just use "için" without "senin"?
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.
"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)
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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 :)
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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.