İlk bulmaca çok kolaydı.

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Breakdown of İlk bulmaca çok kolaydı.

• kolay: easy
• ilk: first
• bulmaca: a puzzle

Questions & Answers about İlk bulmaca çok kolaydı.

Why is there no separate word for was in this sentence?

In Turkish, was is often built into the predicate rather than used as a separate word.

Here, kolaydı breaks down as:

• kolay = easy
• -dı = past tense form of the copula, giving the sense of was

So kolaydı means was easy.

You may also see the longer form kolay idi, but in normal modern Turkish this is usually contracted to kolaydı.

Why is it -dı here and not -di, -du, or -dü?

This is due to 4-way vowel harmony.

The past/copular ending changes to match the last vowel of the word before it:

• -dı
• -di
• -du
• -dü

The last vowel in kolay is a, which is a back unrounded vowel, so the correct form is -dı.

That is why:

• kolay + dı = kolaydı

Why is it d in kolaydı? Can this ending ever start with t?