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What verb form is used here? "- Buyurun efendim, ne arzu etmiştiniz? - Buzdolabı ve televizyon alacaktım." ALACAKTIM: what kind of verb form is it and how should it be translated in this context? It looks like a combination of the future and past tense of "almak", but why isn't just alacağım?
Mar 6, 2018 10:12 AM
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Hello, it means "buy" in this context. This tense does not exist in English, you can translate it like i would like to buy a fridge

Normally it means that I was going to buy but I didn't, but in this context it is just a manner of speaking, it is not formal language. It's just more kind to say like this

March 6, 2018
- Buyurun efendim, ne arzu etmiştiniz? - Buzdolabı ve televizyon alacağım. || I'm gonna buy a fridge and a television ,,,,,,,,,,, to talk normally - Buzdolabı ve televizyon alacaktım. || I would (like to) buy a fridge and a television ,,,,,,,,,, to empolite the expression
March 8, 2018
Actually I am surprised because all the answers are wrong. "Alacaktım" literally means, I was going to buy. It is a combination of future tense and past tense, "Gelecek zamanın hikayesi" in Turkish. As you might already know, "acak,ecek" is future tense verb-makers, and "-tı" is past tense-maker, with a consonant assimilation (normally -dı), "al-acak-tı-m", last letter "m" represents the hidden subject "Ben" meaning "I". I hope it is clear now.
August 23, 2018
almak: 1to take, "2to buy," 3to receive al + acak (future) >alacak ||bare form of the future tense idi was idim i was was will > would -ecek idi / -acak idi > -ecekti/-acaktı alacaktım I would buy
March 8, 2018
You must thinking I was want to buy.
March 6, 2018
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