"Soru sormuyoruz."
Translation:We are not asking questions.
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I think it could be "we're not asking a question." But the "the" in English makes the noun specific: it's not just questions in general, anymore, but a specific question. And in Turkish, once a direct object (in this case, the question) is specific, it needs an accusative ending. So "we are not asking the question" would be "Soruyu sormuyoruz."
Just a friendly warning: Google translate is very bad with Turkish grammar. Even individual words don't always work out the way we want. ("Adamlar" sometimes comes out as "the Adams", haha!) It's a great resource in life, but not to be fully trusted. :-)
If we Google translate the opposite way, "we are not asking questions", it also comes out as "soru sormuyoruz". Google sees both of these as the same. However, simple present /aorist tense ("we don't ask questions") would be "soru sormayız".
If you know the name of the tense you want, you can always confirm what Google tells you with a site like Verbix.
I think you'd need a relative clause with an object participle -- maybe this would work?
bizim sormadığımız soru = our that-we-are-not-asking question
And then you can use it as a subject or an object:
The question we are not asking is stopping us.
Bizim sormadığımız soru bizi durduruyor.
She wants to know the question we are not asking.
O bizim sormadığımız soruyu bilmek istiyor.
In English, you cannot say "we are not asking question" - you need an article or a plural (or both). Your options are:
We are not asking questions->
SorularSoru sormuyoruz.
We are not asking question-> Soru sormuyoruz.
We are not asking the question -> Soruyu sormuyoruz.
We are not asking a question -> Bir soru sormuyoruz.
We are not asking the questions -> Soruları sormuyoruz.
İngilizece cevap burada
Türkçe konuşanlar için İngilizce kursından (burada):
Diller birbirine birebir çevrilemediği gibi, çoğulluk-tekillik de her zaman çevrilemez. Genel ifadelerde Türkçede tekil, İngilizcede ise çoğul kullanıyoruz. Örnek vermek gerekirse, Türkçede Adamlar elmalar yer(ler) diye bir cümle olmaz, genel olarak adamların elma yediğini belirtmek için Adamlar elma yer(ler) deriz. İngilizcede ise bu tip genel ifadeler için çoğul kullanılır: The men eat apples şeklinde.