"I had skin cancer."
Translation:Bende cilt kanseri vardı.
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"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).
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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.
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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"?
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you can say it, but the better way to say it is as you can see "bende cilt kanseri var/vardı/varmış" etc
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"bende var" is not "I am" but "I have" or "at me there exists".
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"Ben cilt kanseri oldum" means you still have it. You "got" it and you still have it
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So if "cilt kanseri idim" is ok, would "cilt kanseriydim" be acceptable? Literally something like, "I was skin cancer-y"?
