"İstanbul'da araba kullanmam."
Translation:I do not drive in Istanbul.
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Why was the word "araba" in the sentence translated to "cars" instead of "car"?
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because you can only use "a car" or "cars" as an object in the English sentence, not just "car"
does it have to be arabayi, with this i-ending in the positive case? like "Istanbul'da arabayi kullanirim"
Unless you are driving a specific car, you would not use the accusative case :)
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Which is the most common, araba kullanmak, araba sürmek or simply sürmek?
In my experience, "Araba kullanmak" is the most common. :)
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Araba sürmek or Araba kullanmak are intransitive and they cannot be used with a direct object. They have the same usage frequency.
Sürmek is usually used as transitive but it can also be used as intransitive as a shortening of 'arabayı sürmek' (be careful, not araba sürmek) so it would suggest that you are already talking about a specific car.
That doesn't make sense in English. you must say "drive cars/a car"
However, "I drive" almost always would be interpreted as driving cars in English. There is no need to include the word for "car" unless you really need to disambiguate.
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Could someone clarify that this is right??
Kullanamam/Kullanamiyorum = I CAN'T use Gidemem/Gidemiyorum = I CAN'T go
Kullanmam/Kullanmiyorum = I DON'T use/I'm not using Gitmem/Gitmiyorum = I DON'T go/I'm not going
Doğru mu? :-)