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Questions & Answers about Bize yemek ısmarladı.
What does bize mean, and why does it end in -e?
Bize means to us.
It is built from the pronoun biz (we / us) plus the dative ending, which often means to or for.
- biz → bize
In this sentence, bize shows who received the action of the treating/buying.
What does ısmarladı mean exactly?
Ismarladı is the past tense of ısmarlamak.
In everyday Turkish, ısmarlamak commonly means things like:
- to treat someone
- to buy something for someone
- to order something, depending on context
In Bize yemek ısmarladı, it means something like he/she treated us to a meal or he/she bought us food.
So it is not just plain gave; it has the idea of paying for or offering something.
Why is there no word for he or she in the sentence?