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Questions & Answers about Şifre yanlış.
What does Şifre mean in English?
Şifre translates to password in English. It can also mean code in some contexts, but here it is used to refer to a password.
What does yanlış mean in English?
Yanlış means wrong or incorrect. In this sentence, it tells us that the password is not correct.
Why is there no verb like is between Şifre and yanlış?
In Turkish, the linking verb (equivalent to is in English) is often omitted in the present simple tense when making a statement about a subject's state. So Şifre yanlış directly conveys "The password is wrong."
Can the sentence be modified to include a verb or a linking element?
Yes, for a more formal or explicit expression, you can add the suffix -dır to yanlış to form yanlıştır. This makes the sentence "Şifre yanlıştır," which explicitly includes the idea of is as in "The password is wrong."
How is definiteness handled in this sentence given that English uses articles like the?
Turkish does not use articles such as "the." The noun Şifre can mean either "password" or "the password" depending on the context. The lack of an article is normal in Turkish, and definiteness is understood from context rather than indicated by a specific word.