"Almanya'ya gittiğimde ailem beni her gün aradı."

Translation: My family called me every day when I went to Germany.

[BenjaminHo5]

Why does "giitiğimde" have the locative case ending on it?

[LadyNurington]

That is not the locative case ending in this instance. It indicates time.

Other examples with the same use:

Uyandığımda - When I woke up

Gittiğimde - When I went

Konuştuğumda - When I spoke

[AlexinNotTurkey]

In response to Nur's response, it is indeed the locative, but it is slightly different when attached to verbs with -DIk, it takes on the the same meaning as "when." This construction has a similar meaning semantically to that of -(y)ken, although there are definitely instances where they are not interchangeable.

[Selcen_Ozturk]

often not really interchangeable with -iken, it is interchangeable -ince and -dik zaman though :)

for example

when I woke up: uyanınca/uyandığımda/uyandığım zaman. "uyanırken" sounds like there was a long process of waking up, like you are waking up from a coma :) in general -iken fits where you use "while"

[aliNka]

Are there rules on when I should use -ince and when -dik?

[Selcen_Ozturk]

they are interchangeable, I think always, but I'll write here if I think of exceptions

[LadyNurington]

Thanks for the better explanation Alex! :) Grammar Gurus to the rescue!

[LeonRom]

it seems in Turkish there is no any difference between position in space and position in time - like 4D continuum

[besiktasli01]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr5MsagZTdWF75ztNkgh-FA

[modene1]

Could this also be:
Almanya'ya gidirken ailem beni her gün aradı?
Or is this talking more about the trip i.e. the going there part e.g. it took me 7 days to get there and on the journey the family called me each day.

[SheridanZhoy]

It looks like Selcen gave the answer already, referring to uyumak. -İken corresponds to "while", so your sentence would mean, "While I was going to Germany, my family called me every day." Like you said, it sounds like a long journey.

[Flatz11]

What's wrong with using the verb 'to ring' instead of 'to call'?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

I added it as an alternative, but it just sounds a bit off to me. Not sure why though :)

[AlaaddinDede]

Why (When I went to Germany my family have called me every day) is wrong?

[SabineBergmann1]

I think it must be my family has instead of have

[RooyAguirre]

Almanya'ya sounds like Alemania in Spanish. It's so cool Middle-Eastern languages have similarities with my Native Language: Spanish!

[caglasl]

turkish is turkic-altaic :)

[woltan]

I am a Native Turkish speaker (I am Albanian i lived in Turkey for 16 years) and this could be meant as "When i went to Germany my family was calling me every day" Please add

[Yusifovsoner]

I wrote the same. Please report it so that they can see

[aucunLien]

"My family called me every day when i was in Germany" : why reject? I am probably missing the nuance between the two, and if i am, could you please give the Turkish translation for this?

[Yusifovsoner]

You say when i was(be) but the example above says. When i went(go)
Try this :)

[Yusifovsoner]

'' When i went to Germany my family called me every day ''

Was not accepted

18.10.2019

[AmFilip]

How would you say: My family called me every day when THEY went to Germany?

[Maikefa]

it should be: Almanya'ya gittiklerinde ailem beni her gün aradı

[Deniz42002]

Beni de

[eileengarton]

why is phoned not accepted?