"Annemin doğum günü için nasıl bir hediye alalım?"

Translation: What kind of a present shall we buy for my mother's birthday?

[londoncallling]

Can someone explain the structure of annemin doğum günü? If doğum günü is birthday, with the -ü marking it out as a compound noun, then shouldn't there also be a possessive marker to go with the possessive case of annemin? So 'annemin doğum günüsü'? Otherwise isn't the possessive of annemin just sort of left hanging?

[Yves23A]

You can't put two marks of possessive to one word.

Example :
Birthday : doğum günü
My day : günüm
My birthday : doğum günüm. üm replaces ü.

[EhabMohey92]

i thought so at first, but I was told that I need one possessive

[RanHas20]

Hi Ehab, are you from Egypt? Do you live or study in Turkey?

[GndtqQ]

I'm really trying to understand this. In this sentence, does
nasil mean the whole phrase "what kind of"? I've only seen it as how, and Google Translate says what kind of
is ne tur (with 2 dots over the u) Please explain. Thanks

[morowinger]

Couldn't it also be "How shall we get a present for my mother's birthday?"

[EhabMohey92]

I think this would be correct if you put "nasil" at the first of the sentence !

[mrkovacs]

I'd like to refresh morowinger's question, a month after him: What is the problem (how would you say in Turkish) "How shall we buy a present for my mother's birthday?"

[zesamsam]

"What kind of a present" does not sound like correct English to me :o)

[AlexinNotTurkey]

It is fine with or without the "a" :)

[turkey1260]

I translated the same way as "mrkovacs". But it's wrong. Why?

[leichim]

So how would I say this (using I instead of we) - what type of present shall I buy for the birthday of my mother?

[RanHas20]

alayım

[EhabMohey92]

we will learn that later

[el_kousy]

what gift shall we buy for my mother's birth day

why wrong

[EhabMohey92]

nasil + fiil+alim = what kind of .... shall we .....

[el_kousy]

Really

This is strange construction I hadn't seen before in duo

May you give another example please

[el_kousy]

do you meant the optative case