Breakdown of Adam köpeği bahçeden kovdu.
köpek
the dog
bahçe
the garden
adam
the man
kovmak
to chase away; fire
Questions & Answers about Adam köpeği bahçeden kovdu.
Is Adam a person’s name here?
No. Here adam means man or the man.
It is capitalized only because it is the first word of the sentence. In the middle of a sentence, it would normally be written adam.
So Adam köpeği bahçeden kovdu does not mean Adam chased the dog out of the garden with Adam as a name. It means The man chased the dog out of the garden.
What is the basic word-for-word breakdown of the sentence?
A helpful breakdown is:
- adam = man
- köpeği = the dog / the dog as a definite direct object
- bahçeden = from the garden
- kovdu = chased away / drove away
So the sentence is literally something like:
Man the-dog from-the-garden chased-away.
Natural English: The man chased the dog out of the garden.
Why is the word order different from English?
Turkish normally prefers Subject–Object–Verb word order.
So:
- Adam = subject
- köpeği = object
- kovdu = verb
That is why the verb comes at the end:
- English: The man chased the dog
- Turkish: Adam köpeği kovdu
The phrase bahçeden comes before the verb as well, which is also very normal in Turkish.
Why is it and not ?