doğduğu evin karşısındayız

English translation: We are standing outside the house where Orhan Veli was born...

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Turkish term or phrase:doğduğu evin karşısındayız
English translation:We are standing outside the house where Orhan Veli was born...
Entered by: Mariette van Heteren

08:33 Apr 10, 2013
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Turkish term or phrase: doğduğu evin karşısındayız
Beykoz’u iyi bilen iki yazın adamıyla; Türkçenin değerli deneme yazarlarından Uğur Kökden ve dostum öykü yazarı Hürriyet Yaşar ile Beykoz’da, İshakağa Caddesi’nin alt başında,
Orhan Veli’nin “13 Nisan 1914 Pazartesi günü sabahı, saat 7 sıralarında” doğduğu evin karşısındayız
Mariette van Heteren
Netherlands
Local time: 08:36
We are standing outside the house where Orhan Veli was born...
Explanation:
This is how I would put it.
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Gül Kaya
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:36
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2We are standing outside the house where Orhan Veli was born...
Gül Kaya
5 +1right across the house
Nihan Pekmen
4 +1we are (standing) right across from the house Orhan Veli was born
Raffi Jamgocyan
5we are on the opposite side of Orhan Veli's birth house
Halime Isova
5opposite the house where he was born
Sue Ellen Dopp


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
right across the house


Explanation:
we are right across the house Orhan Veli was born at "....."

Nihan Pekmen
Türkiye
Local time: 09:36
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  nergis amet gündoğdu
1 day 9 hrs
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
we are (standing) right across from the house Orhan Veli was born


Explanation:
..

Raffi Jamgocyan
Türkiye
Local time: 09:36
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ATIL KAYHAN: ... karsisinda: across from ...
2 hrs
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
we are on the opposite side of Orhan Veli's birth house


Explanation:
no any other

Halime Isova
Local time: 09:36
Native speaker of: Native in BulgarianBulgarian, Native in TurkishTurkish
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
We are standing outside the house where Orhan Veli was born...


Explanation:
This is how I would put it.

Gül Kaya
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:36
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in TurkishTurkish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tim Drayton
2 hrs
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agree  onur ilter
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51 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
opposite the house where he was born


Explanation:
"we are standig outside the house" deyince evin bahçesinde ya da yanında duruyor olabilirsiniz.
"we are (standing) right across from the house Orhan Veli was born" büyük ölçüde doğru ama "where" sözçüğünu eksik:
"we are (standing) right across from the house WHERE Orhan Veli was born"

Sue Ellen Dopp
United States
Local time: 23:36
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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