"I had skin cancer."
Translation:Bende cilt kanseri vardı.
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It is not possible to use the possesive for diseases. I guess it is simply because we don't own them.
"İdim" is "I was". Nowadays, it's usually written together with the previous word (e.g. hasta idim = hastaydım = I was ill; kütüphanede idim = kütüphanedeydim = I was at the library; müdür idim = müdürdüm = I was a director).
"Ben cilt kanseri oldum" means you still have it. You "got" it and you still have it
So the literal translation of this is "I was skin cancer". So extrapolating that to other tenses, if I wanted to say "I have skin cancer", would you say "cilt kanseriyim"?
you can say it, but the better way to say it is as you can see "bende cilt kanseri var/vardı/varmış" etc
So if "cilt kanseri idim" is ok, would "cilt kanseriydim" be acceptable? Literally something like, "I was skin cancer-y"?
Bende means me too, right?
No -- that's ben de (two words).
bende is literally "at me". But bende X var gets translated as "I have (the) X", since we don't say "the X is at me" in English for this meaning.
As I understand "deri" is for leather. But what's the origin of word "cilt"? Is that a loan word?
what's the origin of word "cilt"? Is that a loan word?
Yes; it's from Arabic جلد cild.
Why do you have"oldum" in the hints, when it's vardi..aaaaaarrrggghh