"Boy"
Translation:Oğlan
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Is oğlan exchangeable with erkek çocuk or is there some distinction? Also, what does the ğ sound like?
They are the same for all intents and purposes. The "ğ" makes the vowel preceding it long, but it has no sounds itself. :)
Another question: I just wrote oğlanı as a translation for boy and got it marked as wrong. It shows up as an option when I hover over the word boy, so I am now confused. If boy cannot be oğlanı, then why is it showing up as an option?
oğlanı is "the boy", when it is the object of the sentence (the part being acted upon). It is displayed as a hint because in another sentence it will be correct, but not necessarily in this one. (It's not correct here because it asks for boy, not the boy.) This is a limitation of Duolingo, not the course creators' fault.
So O, oğlanı görüyor is "he sees the boy", but "the/a boy sees him" would be Oğlan onu görüyor.
Can you pronounce "ğ" like a voiced "h" or is it always considered wrong? It makes more sense to me to pronounce it than not, because in my mother tongue Qazaq (which is another Turkic language), all letters are pronounced.
Erkek means male and çucuk is child and oğlan is boy and erkek evlat is the son But is complicated not all words are matched together
When I clicked the word, both çocuk and erkek çocuk appeared as meaning. I chose çocuk as a translation but was marked wrong :/ can someone explain the difference? Thank you
çocuk just means child. No gender specified. You could say erkek çocuk, which would mean male child. Erkek çocuk and oğlan mean the same thing
Which is the word we use for a boy? i see different options. Could you precise the ages?
Erkek means man and çocuk means child, so together they are boy.
In English we say "...could you be precise with...".
What is the difference between erkek and adam? Are they used interchangeably, or do they apply in different circumstances?
Adam means man too but is a bit less gender specific than erkek. Somewhat similar to the use of man in English as in 'mankind'
Boy is translated as erkek evlat. What the hell means evlat? Never seen this word before
"Evlat" is a gender non-specific word for son/daughter -- you can see that we do not have that word in English, but "offspring" is the closest thing.
What does "oğlum" mean by the way? I heard in German rap songs, It' s a form of "oğlan" isn't it?
If oğlan is "boy" rather than "son", shouldn't his "oğlum" mean my "boy" rather than my son ?
Based on my naïve usage of Turkish grammar, "my boy" is "oğlanım" (correct me if I'm wrong).
That's correct!
- My boy --> oğlan + ım --> benim oğlanım
- My son --> oğul + um --> benim oğlum [the first "u" is dropped because of another rule]
But do you hear people use erkek çocuk instead of oğlan in most conversation?
Oğlan is a boy, which they could've used instead of erkek çoçuk, meanwhile çoçuk means kid
Wait, why is "erkek evlat" right? Is there a third way to say boy in turkish?
Modifiers/adjectives -- like "erkek" -- always come before the thing they are modifying -- like "çocuk."
"Erkek" just means "male."
"Erkek çocuk" and "oğlan" both mean "boy."
When the ğ comes its like ء in arabic and you dont really say it when talking or reading a word
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It should be translatrd as: SON, since when someone wants to say /my son/ in turkish he says : benim oğlum.