"They have the tea."
Translation:Çay onlarda.
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There is no reason to put it in the accusative. It is the "subject" in the Turkish subject, so it should be in the nominative.
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can you explain this in a clearer way? i also thought çayı would be correct.
Tea is the subject. The sentence doesn't translate literally as "they have." It's more like "The tea is at them." Is that right?
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GEEZ! The only problem is that the translation Duolingo app offers lead us to the mistake.. for it says "they have the tea".. (which means, it would be subject though) .. :o ®
"Onlarda çay" -- They have the tea
"Onların çayı var" -- They have tea.
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I'm having trouble keeping straight the conjugations for using var and using locative. Is there a chart somewhere that breaks down what the possessor should change to when using var, and what the location should change to when using locative?
If that makes sense.
I feel like I can't keep straight all the ways a pronoun/noun is conjugated for these tenses. :(
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Am I right Onlarda çay - the tea is at them(in their possession)= they have the tea.
Onların çayi var - their tea exists = the tea is their = they have tea
That would translate to "They have tea" :)
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This is probably -also- very obvious, but... why can it not be "onlarda çay"?
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"onlarda" is the predicate (there is no verb in the sentence) - and thus should be at the end
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Is it possible to use locative with people's names, not just personal pronouns, in order to express "to have"?
Nope, that would mean "They have tea" :)
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Why can't we say it as Onların çayı var? What is the difference between this sentence and this: Çay onlarda???
This would mean "They have tea." You use the var-construction with general objects and the locative one with specific.
