"The man wants the chicken."

Translation: Adam tavuğu istiyor.

[tjmax101]

Why can't 'erkek' work instead of 'adam'?

[nicolas_jk]

As I understand it erkek means male, or "not female" (as a contrast). Adam means man.

[zesamsam]

Then why do all the initial lessons show erkek as man? >< (I'm using the mobile app ;o) )

[MarianSliva]

But there is the plural form "erkekler" referring to lot of "erkek"

[Laura847169]

That would make sense -considering I learned elsewhere that for example erkek kardesh means brother, and kiz kardesh sister. But I also learned that erkek means boy, not man. So this keeps thoroughly confusing me here..

[nicolas_jk]

Well, a boy is not a man yet ;-)

[Laura847169]

LOL, so why do we learn that erkek means man here? ;)

[rosythebookworm]

I put "adamı" for "the man" and it counted it wrong.

[Quolh]

Adamı is in the accusative case and so would be appropriate for the object of a sentence whereas in this sentence 'the man' is the subject and so requires the nominative case.

[Aida541113]

Erkek is adam.

[joseboe]

Why chicken not benplural
Adam tavukları ıstıyor

[DanielleHb3]

I am thoroughly confused
I thought we were learnıng the present continuous with 'ıyor, iyor, etc' why is the english not reflecting this? should the English not be the man is wanting the chicken? What am I missing? where is the information on this?