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Questions & Answers about Firma her gün çalışıyor.
What does firma mean in this sentence?
Firma translates to company or firm, referring to a business organization.
What does her gün translate to, and how is it used in the sentence?
Her gün literally means every day. It serves as a time adverbial phrase indicating that the company's operation or work occurs daily.
Why is the verb çalışıyor in the present continuous form when the sentence expresses a routine action?
Turkish often uses the present continuous tense, marked by the suffix -yor, to describe both actions in progress and habitual or regular actions. In this context, çalışıyor conveys that the company works (or operates) every day.
How is subject-verb agreement handled here with an inanimate subject like firma?
In Turkish, verbs are conjugated according to the person and number of the subject regardless of whether it is animate or inanimate. Since firma is a singular third-person noun, the verb çalışıyor is correctly conjugated in the third-person singular form.
Why is there no article equivalent to the before firma in this sentence?
Turkish does not use articles like the or a/an. The definiteness or indefiniteness of a noun is understood from the context, so firma stands alone without an article.