"Keşke çocuk olsaydım."
Translation:I wish I were a child.
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No matter how I try, I keep hearing, "olsaydın." Is it that difficult when real people are speaking? (Aside from the benefit of context)
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What part of speech is keşke? It's being translated as an English verb, but it doesn't look like a Turkish one.
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If "gitseydim" means "if I had gone", then i would have thought, "çocuk olsaydım" would mean "if I had been a child"? Would that be an acceptable answer? Or is this a set phrase?
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If I had been a child could translate to 'Çocuk olmuş olsaydım' or 'Çocuk olsaydım'. So you are right, you could have said: I wish I had been a child.
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'if i had been a child' means 'çocuk olsaydım' but does not mean 'KEŞKE çocuk olsaydım'. The correct translation is 'I wish i were a child'. In my opinion, 'if I had been...' sould not be accepted as a correct translation.
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No. The "if" isn't needed here (and you need to use "I were" instead of "I was" because it's subjunctive.)
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Its Almost like a commonly used English phrase... as usually there should be stıll / hala somewhere to make the sentence "I wish I was still a child"... so would it be... keşke hala çocuk olsaydım. you hear this english translation quite a lot.
I doesn't have to be there in English though :) In fact, there are many situations where one could wish to be a child without having to wish that they were still a child :)
