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Sure. It's usually for situations where there might be many answers, and you have none. ("I don't have THE answer" implies that there's one answer, or one best answer.)
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This is particularly common with open-ended questions, as sainio says. For example, if someone asks why something happened, you could say "I don't have an answer to that."
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I put in "I do not have my answer," but that showed as not correct. Is it? Cevabım looked possessive to me, but I might be getting that wrong? (I'm still getting the hang of the suffixes.)
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In Turkish you show the possesion with both the possessive suffix and possessive pronouns. To make it easier to understand explanation i'll make odd sentences.
have: sahip olmak
Ben bir cevaba sahip değilim.:I don't have an answer.
Ben cevabıma sahip değilim.:I don't have my answer.
If we wanted to compare the sentences it would look something like that. But you wouldn't say such a thing, just tried to show the difference.
how you would say "it s not my answer? " cause this is what i answered :(
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Because they are different letters.
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I just answered "I have not an answer" and it told me it is wrong, is it a bug or i am missing something?
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"I have no an answer" is not a grammatically correct English sentence. You would say "I don't have an answer."
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Turkish structures this thought using the possessive (my) , which is a little different from the way we do it with the nominative (I). It's almost like you're saying, "There isn't my answer" or "My answer doesn't exist."
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If (benim) is "my" and (ben) is "I" shouldnt the sentence be: "Ben bir cevabım yok".
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'yok' doesn't mean 'have'. It means 'there isn't/aren't', 'doesn't exist', 'absent'. So this structure literally means 'There isn't my answer' or 'My answer doesn't exist.'. So since it is 'my answer' the translation should be '(benim) cevabım'.
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that would be : Benim cevabım hayır. Yok is used to negate the possessity
