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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I looked it up earlier and don’t remember the exact characters so forgive the romanization but it’s basically changing “di” to “mis” at the end of verbs.

  “It rained” vs “apparently it rained” when you did not actually see it raining but the sidewalk is wet.

  “Ali is sick” vs “Ali is supposedly sick” when you did not confirm it (or perhaps doubt Ali’s claim??)

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thanks for making it clearer. Just to add actual turkish so people can see properly :

    Yağmur yağdı > It rained Yağmur yağmış > It’s been said that it rained

    Ali hasta > Ali is sick Ali hastamış > It’s been said that Ali is sick

    Yağmur > rain
    yağ > to spread/to rain dı > past indicator mış > second person reporting, past

    hasta > sick

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    • ttayh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      wait, is that yag also the root for yogurt? sorry for the lack of diacritics

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yoğurt

        Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt), from Proto-Turkic *yogrut (“curdled, coagulated milk”),[1] from *yogur- (“to knead, to fluff up, to condense”) +‎ *-ut.[2][3] By surface analysis, yoğur- (“to knead”) +‎ -t.

        You can copy and paste them from the Wikipedia article on the Turkish alphabet, or my post if you want

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