Her sözün bir karşılığı var.

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Breakdown of Her sözün bir karşılığı var.

• bir: a
• her: each
• söz: the word
• var: to exist

Questions & Answers about Her sözün bir karşılığı var.

Why is her used here, and what exactly does it mean?

In this sentence, her means every or each.

So her sözün means every word's, every statement's, or more naturally in English, every word / every statement in a possessive structure.

A common beginner mistake is to connect her with English her (possessive pronoun), but they are completely unrelated. Turkish her is a determiner meaning every/each.

Examples:

• her gün = every day
• her insan = every person
• her sözün = of every word / every statement

Why is it sözün and not just söz?

Because sözün has the genitive ending:

• söz = word, statement, remark, promise
• sözün = of the word / of the statement

This sentence uses a very common Turkish pattern:

X-in Y-si var
= X has Y
literally: There is Y of X

So:

• her sözün = of every word / every statement
• bir karşılığı = its counterpart / its meaning / its response / its consequence
• var = exists, there is

Together, Turkish expresses has through this possessive structure rather than with a verb like English have.

Why does karşılığı have that ending?