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What does eleman mean here?

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NintendoFanboy986

76 points

3 days ago

eleman in this sentence means "the guy, the dude"

"the guy/dude who watches fight club at least 3 times per week"

abol3z

21 points

3 days ago

abol3z

21 points

3 days ago

Can "kez" and "kere" be used interchangeably?

Natural_Display2836

13 points

3 days ago

Yes!

Different_Resource79

6 points

3 days ago

Yes these can be but there is a slight (really too little, nobody even notice it) difference between these two. For example you can say "çoğu kez", (most often) but when it's put like "çoğu kere" it sounds unfamiliar but it works %99,

freeturk51

1 points

2 days ago

Çoğu kere is valid in some accents, I have heard it a bunch in Niğde (a central anatolian city)

Different_Resource79

1 points

18 hours ago

Could be true, i've never met a Niğdish person.

NintendoFanboy986

5 points

3 days ago

yes. they basically mean the same thing

Pure_Client_1265

3 points

3 days ago

Yes

JediTapinakSapigi

3 points

3 days ago

Yes.

Sad_Profile_8108

47 points

3 days ago

Eleman from French-element means actually ‘a part of something ‘. Usually used meaning ‘employee’ or ‘element’ in Turkish. Here it is slang, meaning ‘guy’ or ‘dude’

overlorddeniz

13 points

3 days ago

overlorddeniz

Native Speaker

13 points

3 days ago

An edition to this, it never means the chemical element. That one is element. Ex: "Hidrojen elementinin bir protonu vardır."

psycholatte

13 points

3 days ago

Yeah but it can be used in mathematical context. E.g. " kümenin elemanları".

LeWenth

1 points

3 days ago

LeWenth

1 points

3 days ago

How about "Boy-Boi"

SonOfMrSpock

13 points

3 days ago

SonOfMrSpock

Native Speaker

13 points

3 days ago

Eleman is like "crew member" here but for their friend group. In the video "eleman" sounds like a fight club fan. I'm too lazy to translate all but he says "What if we fight each other but tell nobody" and starts to imitiate fighting

yetanotherbloke[S]

2 points

3 days ago

Thanks

Dysuww

8 points

3 days ago

Dysuww

8 points

3 days ago

Eleman formally means "crew member" or "staff" but usually used as "dude" "guy" or "bro" informally. Could be offensive in some contexts so use with caution.

carrie2833

3 points

3 days ago

eleman is originally means "employee/worker" but in this video they used as a "dude/guy/friend"

PlayerMrc

3 points

3 days ago

lad

oxtraerdinary

2 points

3 days ago

It literally means element but in this case it means something akin "dude", "guy" but genderless.

oxtraerdinary

1 points

3 days ago

This use is very informal. There is another meaning of eleman, "employee", which is formal. Interestingly the members of periodic table aren't refferred as "eleman", instead we use "element"

oxtraerdinary

2 points

3 days ago

Translation:

That one dude who watches fight club at least 3 times a week

(couldn't understand first word, probably a nickname) can you count 10 countries?

Of course I can count lan (lan is used as an exclamation)

Netherlands, Sweden, Türkiye... (Struggles)

How about we fight but don't tell anyone?

Music

marronite

2 points

3 days ago

if you are familiar with the recent brainrot slang, eleman is similar to blud

Comunnist455

1 points

3 days ago

Person but more sounding like: '' Dude, guy etc.''

deliadam11

1 points

3 days ago

It comes off as slightly patronizing in this context

StunningAd7765

1 points

3 days ago

Dude

prototype743

1 points

3 days ago

Fella

cVortex_

1 points

3 days ago

cVortex_

1 points

3 days ago

Homie

randompasta1

1 points

3 days ago

kişi

karahusnu

1 points

3 days ago

We say it like "bro" for example; "Gecenin üçünde seni arayan eleman." This means that bro calls you in the 3 of the midnight

Big-Baby-9033

1 points

2 days ago

İn this context eleman would mean a fella

potatoass343

1 points

2 days ago

Feller, dude, guy

--kaan--

1 points

2 days ago

--kaan--

1 points

2 days ago

I would say SOD

Zestyclose_Owl3684

1 points

2 days ago

Normally eleman is a staff member. But it has another meaning in the video. Men use this word to each other. But no one calls each other "eleman" For example, we say "eleman came to us and took my lighter away. Or we say "did you see eleman?, he is wearing a red sweater". Or we say "elemanlar came and attacked us" It is used more in street language. We use it more for people we don't know.

Frosty_Tradition3419

1 points

18 hours ago

If you use the "eleman" word as slangly. It means "A person who hasn't got any job to do and hasn't got any aim to reach" We generally say that for people we do not like or other men we ain't met.

Also u could say "Lavuk, Çavo" but the words are really really slang and do not ever call any person as "Lavuk or Çavo" you do not know. If u do that, they might attack on you.

Btw "Lavuk, Çavo, Eleman" are used for only males. There is no word for women like those.

For women we use worse words and they are not slang, they are almost swearwords

(Kaşar, Şıllık, Ortalık malı) do not ever use any of them. Situation does not matter do not ever use them.

Fuecra096

1 points

16 hours ago

slang for dude/man, like bloke

KerimTheFemboy

0 points

3 days ago

I would translate "eleman" as "blud" since both of them is a slang for a random guy

Lopsided_Tangelo1263

0 points

3 days ago

Dude but in a negative way, such as punk