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Translation - Turkish-English - Sen gidene kadar zaten çoktan gitmiş olacaklardı.

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Sen gidene kadar zaten çoktan gitmiş olacaklardı.
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Submitted by Blackrose
Source language: Turkish

Sen gidene kadar zaten çoktan gitmiş olacaklardı.

Title
When you arrived there, they had ...
Translation
English

Translated by cheesecake
Target language: English

When you arrived there, they had already gone a long time.
Validated by lilian canale - 13 July 2009 17:34





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12 July 2009 20:05

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
Hi cheesecake,
The verb tenses do not sound fine. What does this mean?

12 July 2009 21:17

cheesecake
Number of messages: 980
Hi Lilian, instead, can we say "They would have already gone before you go"? It means that until you go there, they are already gone for a long time, but the sentence is in past tense.

12 July 2009 22:10

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
Let me see if I understand...

"When you arrived/got there, they had (already) gone a long time" (past action)

or

"Before you arrive/get there, they will have (already) gone a long time" (future action)

13 July 2009 14:50

cheesecake
Number of messages: 980
The first version of the sentence that you wrote seems correct with the original text , but I have realized something wrong with the structure of the Turkish sentence.

Handy, could you please help me here, do you think the text should be arranged? Because "olacaklardı" stands for a past action even though it seems like the meaning tells about a future action. It seems a bit complicated

CC: handyy

13 July 2009 17:31

handyy
Number of messages: 2118
Cheesecake, yes, this one seems a little bit complicated. But nothing is wrong with the text. well, at least I cannot see any mistake.

Anyway, "When/By the time you arrived there, they had already gone a long time." is a correct translation -as you already said above!

Btw, it may be a stupid question but please could one of you tell me why we used "a long time" here? Shouldn't it be "a long time ago"? I am really confused.

13 July 2009 17:32

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
'A long time ago' is used with simple past and it means: long before now.
'A long time' means: much time (at anytime)

13 July 2009 17:36

handyy
Number of messages: 2118
Oh? I really didn't know that!
Thank you for the explanation, dear!

13 July 2009 20:29

cheesecake
Number of messages: 980
Now I see. Thank you so much both of you!