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- "Ev almak artık çok zor!"
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Would it also be correct to say "Ev almak şimdi çok zor!". I got the impression that "artık" was more of a "finally, at last"?
Yes, you can say "şimdi", but that only means "now". Like, right now it's hard to buy a house, but two hours later, it might be easier.
When you say "artık", it's more like "from now on". It's hard now, it will be hard tomorrow.
Surely buying a house now is very difficult is the same as buying a house is now very difficult. I can't see the difference there. Is it something to do with splitting infinitives? Do t understand why I'm wrong.
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i disagree, to express it that way implies there is something (unstated) that has just happened to make it more difficult
Since we're so uptight about proper English answers, this English sentence needs a gerund verb. Hence "It's very difficult BUYING a house now" should be accepted.
i think 'to buy a house is very difficult now.' is also acceptable in english
Many English speakers would say that, but many of us (especially older people, I suspect) still only use "anymore" with a negative, as in "It is not easy to buy a house anymore." Traditionally, "not + anymore" means "no longer." I realize that many people use "anymore" the way you just did, but it still sounds wrong to me. I might use "these days" or "nowadays" instead.
It is definitely not good English. It sounds like a direct and literal translation from Turkish, and this doesn't work in English normally :)
I think "these days" or "nowadays" has the same meaning as "artık" in this sentence. If the sentence were in the negative -- "It is not easy to buy a house now" -- you could say "It is not easy to buy a house anymore" or "It is no longer easy to buy a house."
