Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Word versatility

The most versatile word in Turkish is...well...before today I thought it might be çok or şey...


Today I wanted to post on FB that I was in a "foul mood" and so I looked it up on TURENG. It proceeded to tell me that it didn't understand me so I changed my search to just "foul".


Almost 100 adjectives and adverbs later I find that ağır is pretty damn versatile.


I hadn't looked up the other two so didn't know where they placed. Subsequent enquiry revealed that çok has an astounding 150 or so variations.


I never did find out how to say that I was in a foul mood.







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