Literary Language

Edebiyat Dili

About this concept

Literary Turkish: poetic inversions, archaic suffixes (-dır for emphasis), long compound sentences, and aesthetic word choices in prose and poetry.

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~35 cards at level C1.

Bir garip rüyadır bu dünya.This world is a strange dream. (literary)

Yıldızlar altında yürürdük.We used to walk under the stars.

Nice insanlar geldi geçti.Many a person came and went.

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