"The elephant eats a tomato at the post office."
Translation:Fil postanede domates yer.
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From what i understand, you should as much as you can : start with the subject and end with the verb. The rest goes in between, i think.
The base word is postane, and vowel harmony does not let you change the vowels around within the word, it only links the suffix to the final vowel of the word. Here that is "e" -- so it becomes "postanede."
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Why is "Fil domates postanede yer" wrong? I thought the change of the word order would stress the fact that the elephant is eating the tomatos at the POST OFFICE, which is how I understood the sentence.
I thin it is better to say that you CANNOT place an indefinite object before locative (OR only place a definite object before a locative), hence you cannot say "Fil domates postanede yer" . You could have said "Fil domatesi postanede yer", if you were talking about a specific tomato
because then, you have to use accusative: domatesi.
When your object is not right next to the verb, you have to use accusative, no matter how much indefinite it is.
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Can you say “Postanede fil domates yer”? There are many other sentences with the locative in the first place but here, it is marked as wrong.
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Why " fil postanede bir domates yer" is not correct? Note that the english sentense is "a tomato"
That's the exact answer I gave and it was scored as 'correct'. ...Maybe they changed it since you wrote this?
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I've just read the answer Selcen gave but i have a slightly different question here. Iwrote Fil postanede bir domates yer. Since the indefinite noun is after the locative why is it wrong ? Why can't we say "Fil postanede bir domates yer"?
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