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Anecdotally as a second language speaker of Turkish, day to day Turkish doesn't use words that long. That's mostly just one of several very similar phrases us
by muricula 10y ago
Anecdotally as a second language speaker of Turkish, day to day Turkish doesn't use words that long. That's mostly just one of several very similar phrases used to point out how long and creative Turkish suffixes can get. However, many words one uses in day to day conversation have two or three suffixes tacked on. I'd say most words in a sentence have at least one suffix. Formal written Turkish you might find in a newspaper article discussing the latest political developments uses words with even more abstract suffixes. Such formal writing also uses long winded sentences which would be considered run-on in English and could occasionally be translated into a whole paragraph. It's a fascinating language!