"Kırmızı kutuyu tercih edenler şimdi mutlu."

Translation: The ones who preferred the red box are now happy.

[dieprinzessin]

Kırmızı kutunun içinde ne vardı bilmek istiyorum. (I would like to know what was inside the red box)

Kırmızı kutunun içinde ne vardı bilmek istiyorsun mu? (Wouldn't you like to know what was inside the red box?)

Kırmızı kutunun içinde kim vardı bilmek istiyorum? (Iwould like to know who was in the red box.)

Kırmızı kutunun içinde olan kim bilmek istiyorum? ( I would like to know who is the one who was/is inside the red box.)

Ben kırmızı kutunun içindeki bu şey ne olduğu bilmek istiyorum (I want to know what is the thing inside the red box.)

Is that correct? What I am trying to do is to make the difference between 'who was' and 'what was'... sorry for getting on so long,but all the recent grammar structures are mixing with each other in my head, boiling like in a steaming cooking pot; I had to get some steam out... :)

[Selcen_Ozturk]

• Kırmızı kutunun içinde ne vardı bilmek istiyorum. (I would like to know what was inside the red box) correct
• Kırmızı kutunun içinde ne vardı bilmek istiyorsun mu? (Wouldn't you like to know what was inside the red box?) wrong, it should be "istemez misin?;" (or "istiyor musun" but then this means "do you want to/would you like to know)
• Kırmızı kutunun içinde kim vardı bilmek istiyorum? (Iwould like to know who was in the red box.) correct
• Kırmızı kutunun içinde olan kim bilmek istiyorum? ( I would like to know who is the one who was/is inside the red box.) correct, but we prefer to say "içindeki" instead of "içinde olan"
• Ben kırmızı kutunun içindeki bu şey ne olduğu bilmek istiyorum (I want to know what is the thing inside the red box.) almost correct, it has to be "bu şeyin ne olduğunu"

[dieprinzessin]

Thank you for your explicit answer !!! I really appreciate.

[Marie_goforit]

... and thank you dieprinzessin for your interesting examples.

I just do not get the genitive on 'şey' in 'bu şeyin ne olduğunu'.
Could someone explain this please?

[IanBod]

How do we know this is past tense? I put 'the ones who prefer the red box....' and it was marked wrong.

[Selcen_Ozturk]

The Turkish sentence doesn't imply any tense, but don't you have to prefer it before to be happy now ?

[modene1]

Where is the past tense in the Turkish??

[AlexinNotTurkey]

For participles, there is no past tense. Participles are just future or non-future. 'tercih eden" could be "those who preferred," "those who have preferred," "those who prefer," "those who had preferred" etc.

[modene1]

THanks alex. I wonder then if multiple tense answers have been programmed into DL? I'm pretty sure my answer was correct.

[modene1]

Again I was marked wrong. Please check. My answer:
the ones who prefer the red box are now happy

[SabineBergmann1]

Look what Selcen wrote above. For me not being native English speaker, it makes it understandable.

[hannerfish]

"Now those who chose the red box are happy." Would this also be a correct translation?

[MrHilmiNevzat]

"Kırmızı kutuyu tercih edenler şimdi mutlu."
Translation: The ones who preferred the red box are now happy.

&

The ones who preferred the red box are happy now.

Correct other English answer accepted by Duo.

[Sternchen.2306]

The ones who preferred the red box are happy now. - This sentence is not accepted. Only ......are NOW HAPPY.

[Stergi3]

Could we use "ki" here and how it could be?

[padm915118]

I think the proper meaning of tercih here is.
'The ones whi chose the red box are now happy'
Maybe guests in a party were given a choice of red and blue boxes to choose frpm and those who chose red were rewarded with a $1000. Check each and the ones who chose the blue box got just $10

[Sternchen.2306]

The sentence "The ones who preferred the red box are HAPPY NOW" should be accepted.