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After about a year without response, I changed the flag. Now we need to correct the Turkish sentence.

=> Ben tahlilleri alacaktım.
And I think the correct translation would be "I was going to get the analyses."

Thanks, İlker, corrected.
Please add the English translation and/or other variants.

Done. I wasn't sure about the verb. "to get", "to take", "to have"
But I would use "to get"

Does it actually mean "I was about to get/acquire the analyses"?

What does a native speaker say for this situation?
I will get/take/have/acquire my analyses from the hospital.
Then we can be sure about the correct verb.

I was actually referring to the time frame of the sentence rather than the exact verb in English. Could it mean that within one minute I was going to get the analyses? (that is, I was really *about* to get them?), or did it simply mean future in the past, meaning that I would get them, but we don't know when?

"I would get the analyses" is also correct. But when I read the Turkish sentence, the first thing I understand is "I was going to get the analyses."

But now "would get" seems better for me. (this is about the situation. I don't know when s/he said this sentence. Maybe 1 minute later maybe 1 year later)

I was going to get the analyses & I would get the analyses => Ben tahlilleri alacaktım.

But using "would" doesn't always mean this.
"I would say like this. => Ben böyle derdim." It's not "Ben böyle diyecektim. (because it's something like generally speaking)
I was going to say like this. => Ben böyle diyecektim.

Thank you very much for your elaborate reply.
I'll try to repeat this chapter in Turkish grammar. I can see from your explanation that this construction can be translated by several possible English renditions.

Your welcome :)

And several English sentences can be translated to Turkish as one sentence.
Simple past and present perfect sentences have only one meaning in Turkish.

Yeni bir araba aldım. => I bought a new car & I have bought a new car (also "to purchase) (Actually the correct verb is "satın almak". (Yeni bir araba satın aldım) But we use like this.)

I took (have taken) a new car. & I (have) got a new car. => Yeni bir araba aldım. (without money)

And "I (have) got a new car. => Yeni bir arabam var."

Pretty complicated, huh? :)

Thanks a lot.
Do you know any specific webpage (teaching Turkish grammar) that describes verb structures as alacaktım?

Regarding "aldım", I know it can mean either "to buy" or "to get"/"acquire", as the expression "satın almak" is seldom used.

Well, not too complicated, as I'm already familiar with these Turkish structures :-)

BTW, it's interesting to check how many words in Turkish are quite similar to (or the same as) Hebrew words. Of course, the connecting link (so to speak) is Arabic, where there are words that are similar (or same) in Hebrew.

"araba" I know from Arabic; I believe this word doesn't exist at all in Hebrew.

Sorry, I don't know any website. But some people say busuu.com is a useful one.
Probably it's a paid website.
But sentences in dictionaries helped me a lot and they still do.

That's why Ottoman Turkish language is the previous language of Turkey's old people.

Eldad. One explanation of the tense with some examples is given here http://www.learningpracticaltur...st-future.html - it is quite a quirky website but definitely not boring, and quite extensive. Recommended.

Thanks!
I'll definitely use this site!

I was just looking at the link you cited, and found there the following sentence plus translation:

Ankara'ya gidecektim, işim vardı gidemedim.
I was going to go to Ankara, but I had business
so I couldn't go.

I understand the Turkish sentence, but the word "but" ("ama") wasn't there; do we understand it from the contrast between the two parts of the sentence?

My understanding of the sentence is "I was going to fetch/get/take the analyses", or using would, then in the sense of "I would have fetched the analyses", sort of implying that I didn't, or didn't yet, or didn't at that point. To translate it as "I would fetch the analyses" sounds like something different to me. Perhaps "alırım" or "alırdım"...?

It looks a useful website.

One note: The words written in parentheses are spoken Turkish (gelmiyecektim, gelmiyecektin...).
Both gelmeyecektim and gelmiyecektim are correct while speaking but gelmiyecektim and others are not real words at all.

Yes, in my mind there is an implied "but", or contrast, much like the English "I would have fetched...". I stand to be corrected, but an "ama" would not be incorrect in the example you quote.

Yes. Ama would not be incorrect. But "fakat" would be better.
Ankara'ya gidecektim, fakat işim vardı; gidemedim.

And actually no need to a comma.

Teşekkür ederim İlker bey.

As I explained on the 9th comment, "would" has different meanings
What I wrote is this:
"I would say like this. => Ben böyle derdim." It's not "Ben böyle diyecektim."

But "would" is also simple past form of "will"

This is about the time.
He was going to get the analyses but he died while walking to the desk. (He would have been successful if he had had 2 minutes more) (he 'would' have been... = ...olmuş 'olabilirdi'.)

But deep inside, would has a meaning for "-ecekti, acaktı"

We cannot use "is going to 'verb'" for all times. Hardly do we use "would" for this situation in Turkish.

Rica ederim.

http://www.dilforum.com/forum/l...tml#post352718
On this comment (#5), he translated the two sentences (Don't focus on the answers. I just care the translations.)

His first translation for "would have killed" is "öldürecekti" There is no problem with this translation. It sounds perfect.

But his second translation for "would have been a waste of time" is "zaman kaybı olacağı" (personally it's "zaman kaybı olmuş olacağı") it's not "Zaman kaybı olacaktı" (zaman kaybı olmuş olacaktı") Because the first one sounds better. Just for this.

Anyway, you say a sentence in the way how it sounds good in Turkish. People will understand you. And they don't even think whether this sentence is correct or not.

Your translation, [#2667231], doesn't always mean "alacaktım". It also means "Tahlilleri almış 'olurdum'"

If I hadn't fallen asleep, I would have fetched the analyses => Uyuyakalmasaydım tahlilleri alırdım. But if you say "Uyuyakalmasam tahlilleri alacaktım" for This sentence, it will also be OK. People will understand what you mean.
I would get the analyses. => Tahlilleri alırdım. (and this can also be translated as "Tahlilleri alacaktım" on its own). People will understand what you want to mean there.

But personally the best translation for this Turkish sentence is "I was going to get the analyses."
All clear.

Nope, it doesn't.

Think like this:
Nurse calls me and says "I prepared your analyses. You can .... them from our hospital whenever you want."

That's the verb I wonder.