Bacağım ağrıyor.

to hurt

Breakdown of Bacağım ağrıyor.

• bacak: the leg

Questions & Answers about Bacağım ağrıyor.

How is Bacağım built?

It is:

• bacak = leg
• -ım = my

So:

• bacak + ım → bacağım = my leg

The final form changes a little because of a sound change in Turkish, which is why you do not see bacakım.

Why does bacak become bacağ- in bacağım?

This is a very common Turkish sound change.

When some nouns ending in -k take a suffix that begins with a vowel, the k often softens to ğ.

So:

• bacak
  • -ım → bacağım

This kind of change is normal in Turkish and happens in many words. It is not a special irregularity of this sentence.

What does -ım mean here?

-ım is the 1st person singular possessive suffix, meaning my.

In Turkish, possession is often shown by a suffix attached directly to the noun.

So:

• bacağım = my leg

Because of vowel harmony, this suffix can appear in different forms:

• -ım
• -im
• -um
• -üm

Here it is -ım because that matches the vowels in bacak.