"Ben her gece kitap okurum."
Translation:I read a book every night.
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This may be a silly question to you but an important one indeed: does Turkish differentiate between imperfective verbs (uncompleted actions) and perfective verbs (completed actions) any more than English does? In Russian, you would use the verbs причитать to indicate that you finish reading a book every night.
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As far as I've learned so far, "kitap" here can mean "a book" or "books in general". Then I guess Turks don't care if there is one book or more when they speak this sentence. So I believe it's more like "I do some readings every day".
"Every night I read a book" is accepted in translation. This is in the same sequence as the Turkish sentence. The 'ing' is implied, though 'uyor' is needed in the Turkish sentence. It is worth experimenting with different sentence structures, as Duolingo has more appropriate alternatives that are not shown. English is very malleable when it comes to sentence structures. Duolingo tries to entertain all of them.
"Ben her gece kitap okurum." Translation: I read a book every night.
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"I read books every night"
Correct other English answer accepted by Duo.
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The book in the Turkish question does not have an accusative case. To satisfy the English translation Book - books is accepted as correct switchable singulars, plurals. So - never judge the book by its cover.
EDITED 01/11/2021
Indefinite, direct objects are expressed in singular form in Turkish.
I could actually argue with you on that one ;) I've been working as an English-Russian interpreter for several years now and I can say that in this particual case "each night" would sound much more natural for the English-speakers than "every night". Maybe I was working with some wrong English-speakers)
Once again, it depends on context. "each night" is sort of better when you want to stress that they are individual and not part of some grand pattern (this is just my intuition...if other native English speakers have some advice, it would be great). I can honestly say that I extremely rarely use the phrase "each night" :)
I strongly agree with this. "Each" is used to specify or emphasize, whereas "every" is more commonly used to indicate the idea of all. Examples: Everyone, everyday, everything, everywhere, everyplace. "Everyone goes to the well everyday," is a generality that is not invalidated by individual variation. One person failing to visit the well does not falsify this statement, whereas "Each person goes to the well each and every day" specifies that all individuals discussed unfailingly visit the well daily.
All that to say, English is a terribly mercurial language that hijacks words and grammar from everyone it meets. If someone disagrees, I'm down to listen.
ThereseKos1
Hello.
"Ben her gece kitap okurum." Translation: I read a book every night.
The issue here is the "day's time scale." At what time during the day does evening become night?
5:01 PM to 8 PM
Noon is at 12:00 PM. Afternoon is from 12:01 PM to around 5:00 PM. Evening is from 5:01 PM to 8 PM, or around sunset. Night is from sunset to sunrise, so from 8:01 PM until 5:59 AM.16 Mar 2019 word usage - the exact time of "evening" and "night" - English.
This calibration of an English day also applies to a Turkish day.
Two hours time difference. Turkey (Istanbul) is two hours ahead of (London) time.
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According to the Highway Code, you cannot use your horn between 11pm and 7:30 am, which is considered night time. The evening is 5pm to 11pm, noon is 12pm, midnight is 12am, morning is 7:30am to 12am, and afternoon is 12am to 5pm. This is standard for most countries around the world. Unless, off course, you have 6 months of days and 6 months of nights;):D
Omi951
Hello.
"Ben her gece kitap okurum." Translation: I read a book every night.
How would you say I read books every night? When do you have to use plural?
I'm sure that if the question being asked in English says "books" then in the Turkish answer it is expressed as a singular noun "book."
We will not use ("one" or "a") in the English question which equates to "bir" in Turkish.
"I read books every night." - Ben her gece kitap okurum. - Correct.
Let's reverse the question/answer:
"Ben her gece kitap okurum." - I read book every night. - Wrong.
You either make the English answer plural "book(s)" or insert an "a" after "read."
So ("one" or "a") is a determiner/quantifier in English.
You will see this often on Duo. Turkish nouns expressed as (singular) form.
Thank you.