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Anon wants sources (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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??)

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ttayh@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yo%C4%9Furt

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