"The man who is crying must be unhappy."
Translation:Ağlayan adam mutsuz olmalı.
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What is the difference between mutsuz and üzücü?
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It's probably as subtle a difference as between "unhappy" and "sad" in English. For example, a tragic event could make you sad, but things not going your way could make you unhappy.
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You might certainly call that subtle. I would probably call that synonymous. It may simply be a mistake that uzucu was not accepted here, I guess.
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No, it cannot be "üzücü", as it means "upsetting". "üzücü" means something that makes you upset/sad.
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Thank you for making that clear.
I think we now have three important subtly different terms:
mutsuz - unhappy
üzgün - sad
üzücü - saddening
Does that seem rıght?
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Was just thinking that maybe its perspective. Is your coffee black or does it have no cream :D
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Mutsuz is unhappy or sad Üzücü means something which makes you sad/unhappy
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The sentence seems to be drawing an inference: he is crying, so I conclude he is sad. I resisted using the -mali- suffix for this, since I don't mean that he has to be sad, he must be sad, he has a duty to be sad. I wished that the aorist olur could carry this weight somehow. Does -mali- also cover this kind of inference? Like, "I hear the church bells, it must be Sunday."
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It is true what you say it is not his duty to be sad but if he is crying then he is prıobably sad
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Just a question: Why not zorunda instead of olmalı? :)
Zorunda can't replace the entire "olmalı"; it still needs a verb, and an infinitive at that:
"Ağlayan adam mutsuz olmak zorunda," is possible.
However, that would rather mean: The man who is crying has to/is obliged to be unhappy. He's bound by laws to be unhappy. ;p
"Zorunda" doesn't have the "assumption nuance" that -meli/-malı has.
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Hahaha I understand it now! ^^ Thank you for the great explanation :D
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I wrote "adam ağlayan mutsuz olmalı" and it said I was incorrect. Does the subject have to come after this verb form?
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The participle form of a verb acts like an adjective so must come before
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Seems like without the "adam" it would be even more general and less specific. Anything that's crying, not just a man that's crying.
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So would you say that this .-an -en ending can be used any time you want to make an adjective out of a verb? The notes were good at explaining how to code it but not at telling us when to use it.