"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"
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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
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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.
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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.
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-e yakın = close to.
So, buraya yakın = close to here, near here.
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"Bu yakınlarda sinema var mı?" could be better translated as "Is there a cinema around here?"
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I used "burada" instead of "buraya" and have been corrected to "Buralarda bir sinema var mi".