"We always ate fish while we were in Greece."

Translation: Yunanistan'dayken hep balık yedik.

[Momo.Reza]

İ have answered "yerdik" is it true also?

[S0R0USH]

That's the aorist + past tense. I don't think it is true.

Reason 1

"used to" is not in the English sentence.

Used to + verb is a regular verb and means something that happened but doesn't happen any more which is the tense that aorist (-rdi) uses.

Yerdik would change the sentence to:

We used to always eat fish while we were in Greece

Reason 2

The past aorist tense implies that

1. You usually ate fish before
2. Now you no longer eat fish
3. You stopped eating fish at some point in time while you were in Greece

Because the English sentence says that you "always" ate fish in Greece, rather than "used to" eat fish in Greece, assumption #3 does not hold true; thus, this -rdi suffix would be inappropriate.

*fluent Turkish speakers and Grammar geeks, correct me if I'm wrong.

edit: a word...
edit 2 : reason 2

[MuhammadSRashed]

Why "balık" Instead of "balığı", the word is in the accusative case.

[ex_contributor]

it is not, accusative in Turkish is only for definite, direct objects, and fish here is not definite https://www.duolingo.com/comment/7738396

[MuhammadSRashed]

Teşekkürler! I'm trying to notice these differences on my own, but your language is quite a challenge. ☺

[ureibosatsu]

Does an indefinite direct object need to come after an adverb? I said '...balık hep yedik' and it wasn't accepted.

[AlexinNotTurkey]

General direct objects come right before the verb. :) Otherwise, you have to add the accusative suffix :)

[cvictoria42]

Ah, so would "balığı hep yedik" be grammatical?

[irene.verdiesen]

Why is daima in stead of hep wrong? When hoovering over the English word both are suggested. I don't undertand the difference.

[BurakBirbe]

you are definitely correct. Duo should accept those words i.e. 'daima' or 'sürekli' as well.

[irene.verdiesen]

Thanks

[SemihTemel]

Actually "sürekli" equals to "continuously", "always" equals to "her zaman" or "hep". If you need to be more serious then use "her zaman". And the difference between "daima" and "hep" is the same difference between "forever" and "always". For example: "I want to live always", "I want to live forever"

[BurakBirbe]

i wrote 'sürekli' instead of writing 'hep'. I believe that it should be counted correct as well.

[avncamargo]

Yunanistan'dayken? What the hell is this form? What is this exercise doing in the Adverbs lesson when it's clearly of a more advanced lesson?

[UrsulaRohw]

Is it probably Yunanistan'da + iken changed to dayken because of two vocals-> Yunanistan'dayken?
I also struggled with this and hope it's right because it sounds logical to me...