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How do you work with Turkic Adjectives?

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clumsy
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16 December 2011 at 11:29am | IP Logged 
I think according to Turkic grammar there are nominals, and verbals or something.

and there are separate endings for verbs, but what about nominals?
I know of course that Turkic is not a one language, but it happens that I am learning a
lot of Turkic languages, so I would be happy to hear about any of them.


For example
how to say things like:


I want to be rich
the girl became pretty.


I am gueessing you would use bo'lmoq in Uzbek, but I am only guessing.

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17 December 2011 at 12:08am | IP Logged 
As far as I know, this is how it is in Turkish:

I want to be rich: zengin olmak/olmam istiyorum

the girl became pretty: kız güzel oldu
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18 December 2011 at 8:18pm | IP Logged 
Thanks!
So you have to use the auxiliary verb olmak?
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19 December 2011 at 2:43pm | IP Logged 
Yes, again, I am speaking only for Turkish, olmak in turkish means both "to be" and "to become"

to not be confused with ölmek which is to die
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21 December 2011 at 6:29pm | IP Logged 
hm, I see.
I was asking, since you cannot add tense to an adjective.
In Indo-European you alsways use the verb "to be" then.

but I had no idea how Turkic ones would deal with it.

hmm, I m learning Turkish, Uzbek and Kazakh, and some Uighur most seriously(and few
others less seriously).
but I think even if there would be some answer about ohter one, it could prove useful to
people who sutdy them.
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21 December 2011 at 7:24pm | IP Logged 
clumsy wrote:
hm, I see.
I was asking, since you cannot add tense to an adjective.
In Indo-European you alsways use the verb "to be" then.

Actually, you don't always have to use olmak (to be/become). You can change the adjective to the person being described.

In Turkish, for example: "Yorgunum" - I'm tired. You could change that to past tense by saying "Yorgundum" - I was tired. And it matches the tense of the rest of a more complex sentence: "Eve döndük daha hala yorgunduk" - We got back home, still very tired.

I guess it varies according to the adjective, whether you use olmak or not in common usage.


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Edited by hrhenry on 21 December 2011 at 8:04pm



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