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yusuf1653
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why not "had wiped"? because there is "-miş" so we do not know who wiped the table.
3 years ago
Adding to this,
Native speakers of Turkish, when translating a sentence to English, seem to confuse "mişli geçmiş zaman" (yapmış) and "mişli geçmiş zamanın hikâyesi" (yapmıştı); and only the second one is translatable with a past perfect.
"Silmişti" can be translated as "he had wiped".
"Silmiş" can be translated as "he wiped", "apparently he wiped", "as far as I've heard, he wiped", "I've been told that he wiped" and so on, depending on the context.
3 years ago
This is American English. According to British English, you have to use the present perfect tense (which is also fine in American English). We accept both :)
3 years ago
