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박희섭(Heesob Park)
What is the meaning of "yıldır" ?
1) What is the meaning of "yıldır" in the following sentence?
Çiçeklerin milyonlarca yıldır dikenleri var.
2) What is the meaning of "olsun" in the following sentence?
Peki bu çiçeklerin hâla dikenleri olsun diye çabalamalarının nedenini anlamaya çalışmak önemli işlerden sayılmıyor.
3) What is the meaning of "olduğu yere" in the following sentence?
Aletlerimi olduğu yere bıraktım.
4) What is the meaning of "gözyaşları ülkesi" in the following sentence?
Çok gizemli bir ülke şu gözyaşları ülkesi.
Jan 6, 2016 3:28 PM
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As per Oguz, plus...
diken = thorns
yıldır : dir/tir at the end of a word is often used for emphasis and/or for a point of fact. So the flowers have had thorns for millions of years. This is a fact.
More examples of dir/tir can be found here:
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/adjectives.htm
January 7, 2016
1-Flowers has diken(I dont know in English) for million years. (yıllar years, yıllar(dır) for x years.)
2-Flowers trying to "GET" diken. Olsun it complicated. You better take help from teachers
3-I put my tools "where they belong to"
4-Country of tears . There is metaphor expression here. It means there are a lot crying people at there.
January 6, 2016
As far as my turkish knows it means for years.... the ending dir means that in this case
January 7, 2016
olsun diye
Bilgin olsun diye söylüyorum - I'm saying that just to inform you.
Suç üstüme kalsın diye beni sağ bırakmışlardı - I was left alive to take the fall
Buraya koy kimse görmesin diye. - Put it here so noone can see it.
January 7, 2016
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박희섭(Heesob Park)
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