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"The month of December." (half genitive)
It's optional of course. "Aralık çok sıcak" is also completely fine.
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Teşekkürler! Şimdi anladım! (Very early, I learned how to say I do understand and I don't understand!)
Anladım actually means I UNDERSTOOD. Anlıyorum means I am understanding or I understand. However, anladım is the best word to use.
Whenever you have X of Y, the X will have the third person possessive suffix on it, which is going to be one of the following: -ı, -i, -u, -ü, -sı, -si, -su, -sü.
The month of December --> [December] [Month] + -ı, -i, -u, -ü, -sı, -si, -su, -sü.
Month is "ay". You'll see that you need "-ı" when you do the vowel-harmony-calculation: Aralık ayı.
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When you're trying to learn a new language it would help if Duo would give us sentences that actually make sense. December in Turkey is NOT hot! (I've made 7 trips.)
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Some of the sentences refer to the northern hemisphere, others refer to the southern hemisphere. Duo ŝatas egalecon.
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Maybe the speaker is a Turk residing in Australia?
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Thanks for bringing awesome kebabs here all you Aussie Turks!
I was in Brisbane last week, with 3 German colleagues. There is an Ahmet's kebab restaurant that everyone praises. The Germans told me "Let's go there mate!" - I was like "Wait, 'MATE'? When did you become so Australian?! Plus, I didn't fly 20,000 km to eat Turkish food here." - Then we ate sushi, which as everybody knows is a typical Australian delicacy. Oh well.
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hayır. Turkey is in the northern hemisphere, as you probably know :)
"Aralık ayı çok sıcak." Translation: December is very hot.
December is a very hot month. This answer was rejected by Duo.
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Why is warm not acceptable here? I've always heard the words used interchangeably.
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I translated it as: "December is a very hot month" because of this Aralık ayı. Why is it not correct?
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That would be something like Aralık çok sıcak bir ay.
aralık ayı you can think of as "the month of December" if it helps you - So Aralık ayı çok sıcak means "(The month of) December is very hot".
