Most common use of thing...
Advancing the thing...
Disguising with thing...
The latest thing...
The most common example --
As mentioned in the section on the Regularities of Turkish, this can be for good and logical reasons -- such as with the Imperative. In the "spoken" Turkish, an imperative verb frequently begins a sentence (Git buradan! Get out of here!), because someone with urgent instructions (or orders) to issue will naturally put the operative word first. Likewise with an urgent question...For example, the traffic cop just arriving at the scene of a serious road accident might shout Var mI sakat?! Is there anyone injured?! -- although, at the scene of a simple fender-bender, he might calmly ask Sakat var mI? -- in the standard word order for a question.
Another case can arise if the speaker momentarily forgets a word and "temporarily" substitutes sey -- in its place. [In this instance, sey would equate to our what'cha ma' call it.] In English this might arise as in...
In Turkish, that same statement would look like...
for advanced language lovers (and other
In case you don't want to come right out and say what you mean in Turkish...
First lady-of-the-evening:
The latest 'thing' While travelling the other day along the Aegean Coast near KusadasI, the corner of one of our eyes was attracted by a bright new construction sign, announcing the start of a fab! new building project -- for a luxury condominium complex. New building projects are a dime a dozen around here, we know...But, what caused us to do a double-take and a rubber-necker was the proposed name for this new luxury complex... You guessed it, it's going to be
The 'Thing' Condominiums!
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