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"Is there a cinema near here?"
Translation:Buraya yakın bir sinema var mı?
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Can't the "bir" be omitted in a sentence like this?
I thought that a noun (without an adjective) as the subject of a sentence could be "noun", "a noun", or "the noun".
So "Köpeğim var" could mean "I have a dog", for example - and "Buraya yakın sinema var" could mean, I think, "There is a cinema near here".
Nope, "A (adj.) (noun)" requires "bir." If you ever have a general noun with an adjective, you will have "bir"
Ah, so even my second guess was wrong!
So it's "buraya yakın bir sinema" (a cinema that is close to here) + "var mı?", then?
Thanks!
Exactly :) If only there were a way that I could easily post some syntax trees here :D
Ah. I had interpreted "yakın" as an adverb here -- "Buraya yakın" (near here) "sinema var mı" (is there a cinema?).
So this is "Buraya" (here) "yakın bir sinema var mı" (is there a close cinema?) instead?
"buraya yakın"is an adjective phrase, not an adverb phrase. That may be what is tripping you up.
Actually, yes you can omit it. Due to the recent influence of English over Turkish we have started to use "bir" more frequently. But it's not necessary. Native speaker here.
bramco2
"Buraya yakın sinema var mı?" - Is there a cinema near here? - Correct.
1053
I used "burada" instead of "buraya" and have been corrected to "Buralarda bir sinema var mi".
"Bu yakınlarda sinema var mı?" could be better translated as "Is there a cinema around here?"
Eva
Hello
"Is there a cinema near here?" Translation: Buraya yakın bir sinema var mı?
Is there a correct way to construct this sentence using yakınında??
Yakın - (adjective) "Close" & "near." You would not add the (genitive) case suffix "-ın" to yakın in your example.
You can add the "-da" (locative) suffix.
Yakında bir sinema var mı? - Is there a cinema near by?
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Bir sinema yakında var mı? - Is there a cinema close by?
OK as spoken Turkish but the original Turkish answer provided by Duo is best when written Turkish is required.
Thank you
Closely related, but maybe not quite the same question. I got used to translate phrases with location postpositions (Turkish) / prepositions (English) like this: on (top of) X - "at X's top" - 'X'in üzünde". This would lead to a construction with yakında here as well, but needs a possessive form of "bura*" (as the X). Would that work? Like: Sinema bura(?)in yakînda var mı? (No "bir" necessary, because the location phrase is not an adjective to the cinema). Or is it impossible to use "here" as a noun like that?
