"Dinlememi istiyor musun?"

Translation: Do you want me to listen?

[ZandraL.Le]

How can we tell the difference between "listen" and "rest" in Turkish?

[AK_Melanin]

To listen = dinlemek (1 N)
To rest = dinlenmek (2 Ns)

[leichim]

So how would you say: do you want me to not listen? dinlemememi istiyor musun?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Yep! You can even get more intense with something like "yapmamama rağmen" = "Despite my not having done it" :D

[Saraswathy12]

Can someone please give the break up of "Dinlememi". Thanks.

[Todd940413]

(I tried to answer your request in my post above.)

[ChloMeo]

is the gerund form always used with accusative?

[JustRunFree]

No. We can also say "Dinlemek istiyor musun?", which means "Do you want to listen?".

[Saraswathy12]

So how would one write "Do you want me to listen" using Dinlemek

[Todd940413]

Hello, Saraswathy. Sorry you had to wait five months! I believe the answer to your question is the very bit of Turkish shown at the top of the page; "dinlemek" apparently needs to undergo the shown modifications to fit the meaning of the English.

To address your request below: "Dinlememi" indeed bears a strong relation to the regular infinitive, "dinlemek." I believe that the related form "dinleme" could be referred to as the "light infinitive" (https://elon.io/learn-turkish/lesson/the-infinitive-with-case-suffixes) of "dinlemek." Here is how I would try to break it up:

dinleme: listening
dinlemem: my listening
dinlememi: my listening (accusative case)

So: "Do you want my listening?" or, in more normal English, "Do you want me to listen?"

[el_kousy]

so how can we translate do you want to listen to me

bana dinleme istiyor musun??

[Yomalyn]

Beni dinlemek istiyor musun?= Do you want to listen to me?

[negar906156]

Please go over

[ZandraL.Le]

Got it! Thanks!

[Fbaghestani]

Does "dinlemem" mean both :
1- I do not listen (aorist negative)
2- me to listen (gerund)

[Todd940413]

Looks that way to me! (https://www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?D1=31&T1=dinlemek&H1=131) I would express "2-" as "my listening." We can change it to "me to listen" in the final translation.

[hazelcifci]

to me , me to , farkı ne? Ne zaman hangisi geliyor