"We need to have fun tonight!"

Translation: Bu gece eğlenmemiz gerekiyor!

[Laeksaa]

What is the difference between gerekiyor and lazım?

[Selcen_Ozturk]

no difference

[AibShath]

Aynı

[Furkan8k]

Lazım is Arabic and gerekmek is Turkish.

[Shahrazad26]

Here eğlenmemiz means "our having fun", yes?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Yep

[Ender_M_G]

You should watch this video to learn "lazım" in Turkish. You will have fun

[Ender_M_G]

https://youtu.be/RGJcXCiF66Y

[Anja618967]

That's great, thank you for sharing!

[DonaldLeBeau]

This was marked wrong: "Bu gece eğlenmemiz lazım". It would seem that since the two words mean and are used the same (gerekiyor and lazım) then Dup should make every example acceptable when either can be used.

[alibektas34]

This was my answer, and it was accepted. I guess, they added as an alternative.

[ZandraL.Le]

Me too, with the exception that I placed Biz at the start of the sentence. It was not accepted.

[AlaskaYoung2]

"Bu gece eglenmeyi gerekiyoruz". Is that possible?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Nope, the verb "gerekmek" doesn't take the accusative case nor does it take personal endings. Think of it like the verb "to be necessary." You cannot say "We are necessary the having fun tonight." You would rather say "Our having fun tonight is necessary/It is necessary that we have fun"

[AlaskaYoung2]

Thanks so much!

[Tomburrow1]

Why not lazım?

[Filis11358]

What is wrong with 'Bu gece eğlenmeliyiz' ?

[ogrenci1]

As far as I know, what you wrote would be more like "we should have fun tonight"

[Tomburrow1]

I know akşam means evening but isn't it okay in this context?

[standingwo]

i agree, especially if you understand "night" as coming after "evening." if you say, "let's do something tonight" in english, you really mean, "let's do something this evening," not, "let's do something after midnight." we just don't typically say "this evening" anymore in north america.