"Keşke çocuk olsaydım."
Translation:I wish I were a child.
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Is it? Anyway, in this case "I wish I were" is grammatically correct because you're talking about an hypothetical non-existent reality. I was a child ten years ago I wish I were a child (now)
No matter how I try, I keep hearing, "olsaydın." Is it that difficult when real people are speaking? (Aside from the benefit of context)
"Keşke çocuk olsaydım." Translation: I wish I were a child.
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I wish I was a child.
Correct other English answer accepted by Duo.
JuLaila6
Hello young lady.
You have many green years ahead of you.
You have made me sad.
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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".
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?
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.
'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.
No. The "if" isn't needed here (and you need to use "I were" instead of "I was" because it's subjunctive.)
Keşke is like bárcsak in hungarian, if someone would wish something :D
Write on the YouTube (ferdi Tayfur ah bir çocuk olsaydım) and listen that song
