Lesson5
Elbisen kuru mu?
English: Is your dress dry?
Elbisen: Your dress.
Elbise: Dress (noun).
-n: Second-person possessive suffix (your).
Kuru: Dry (adjective).
Mu: Question particle (used to form a yes/no question).
Explanation: The possessive suffix -n shows that the dress belongs to “you.” The question particle -mu follows vowel harmony rules, taking the form mu because u is a back vowel.
Senin elbisen kirli mi?
- English: Is your dress dirty?
- Senin: Your (possessive pronoun).
- Elbisen: Your dress (as explained above).
- Kirli: Dirty (adjective).
- Mi: Question particle.
3. Hayır, benim elbisem kirli değil.
- English: No, my dress is not dirty.
- Benim: My (possessive pronoun).
- Elbisem: My dress.
- -m: First-person possessive suffix (my).
- Kirli: Dirty.
- Değil: Not (negation of adjectives or nouns).
4. Gittiğimde: When I go.
- Git: Root verb meaning “to go.”
- -tiğimde: When I.
- -diğim: First-person singular relative clause suffix meaning “when I.”
- -de: Locative suffix indicating time (when).
Explanation: The suffix -diğimde translates to “when I go,” combining the first-person relative suffix with the locative case to express time.
5. İçtiğimde: When I drink.
- İç: Root verb meaning “to drink.”
- -tiğimde: When I (as explained above).