"Ördekler benim ördeklerim."

Translation: The ducks are my ducks.

[cesiturk]

Sometimes the sentences are just so strange I get very befuddled.

[XMO]

It's almost like they were written by quacks.

[Salih_Dz.]

How would we say "ducks, my ducks" as if we were talking to our mind e.g. ducks my ducks where you have been till now...

[AboAyman3]

My aswer was: the ducks are mine.
It was rejected.
Why.

[PaulieGlot.]

I think that would be wditten as "Ördekler benim."

[JasmineBrie]

This has a great beat

[Will709432]

This is brilliant. It's like a mantra. Just keep repeating it

[virtueavatar]

this is the only way you would use this sentence

[pogotc]

Assuming my understanding of suffixes is correct it seems like ördeklerim, on its own, could either be the possessive or the copula. In this sentence the possessive makes more sense than the copula (I am ducks) but is there a way to know for sure which one is being used in other sentences?

[Danika_Dakika]

You can tell for certain that it is the possessive because of the "benim" in front of it.

[JugderGurr1]

The ducks are mine

[simpn12]

Would someone be able to explain this one to me?

[gluadys]

Ördekler = ducks or the ducks

benim ördeklerim. = my ducks (possessive pronoun + noun with possessive ending)

The speaker is claiming ownership of the ducks. "The ducks are my ducks, (not his ducks)."

[adel302863]

Could we say
Those are my ducks
Sunlar benim ordeklerim

[Danika_Dakika]

Yep.