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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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In Engish "lf" is generally a conjunction used in a conditional clause.
Eg. "Zengin olsaydım, seyahat ederdim = "If I were rich, I would travel".
In English, the closest translation for "keşke" (in meaning) would be "if only".
Eg. "Keşke zengin olsaydım" = "If only I were rich" / "I wish I were rich".
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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.)
