Hoogstwaarschijnlijk's Turkish Thread

[Hoogstwaarschijnlijk]

Merhaba,

Türkçe üniversitede bir sene öğreniyordum, ama çok unutuyordum. şimdi yine öğreneceğim, umuyorum.


I'm using other resources now, all kind of them, because I won't have lessons anymore. So I need to keep myself motivated and I don't have a person in real life to answer the questions I have. Therefore I opened this thread.

My first question:
- At a website with online lessons I came across the suffix -dIr. It is used like this:
anneyim, annesin, annedir (I'm (a) mother, you're (a) mother, he/she/it's (a) mother)
I have never seen this, I always thought that it he/she/it you didn't need to add anything. But apparently it is possible to add something. My question is: when would I need to do that, are there any specific rules or maybe this or that is more formal...?

[Schwarzrat]

You can use ite if you want but you needn't to. If I'm not wrong, it's used to put the emphazise on the fact that it's her/him who's mother.

[kalemiye]

You can use ite if you want but you needn't to. If I'm not wrong, it's used to put the emphazise on the fact that it's her/him who's mother.

Or to show that you are not sure about the statement. Normally it is not used though.

[Hoogstwaarschijnlijk]

You can use ite if you want but you needn't to. If I'm not wrong, it's used to put the emphazise on the fact that it's her/him who's mother.

Or to show that you are not sure about the statement. Normally it is not used though.

... isn't that a contradiction? (emphasise versus not being sure)
I'll forget about that whole -dIr-thing for now, when it's not used normally anyway.


Bugün kelime 'kedi'ye buldum, iyi kelime! Biraz 'cat'/ 'kat' ile aynı, çakışma mı?

[onurdolar]

Kedi sözcüğünün kökeni tam olarak bilinmemekle birlikte; Ermenice katu/gadu veya Farsça kedi ( evcil anlamına geliyormuş ) sözcüklerinden Türkçeye geçmiş olabilieceği tahmin ediliyor. Akdeniz ve çevresinden doğan bütün uygarlıklar bu hayvan için benzer sözcükler kullanmışlar aynı kökten türemiş olmaları olası.

The origin of word "kedi" is not completely known however, it might be originated from either armenian word katu/gadu or persian word "kedi" (which does not mean cat but means domestic ). All civilizations originated from Mediterranean zone use a similar word for the domestic cat so it's possible that cat/katze/kedi share the same origin.