Word
Fasulye düdüklü tencerede pişiyor.
Meaning
Beans are cooking in the pressure cooker.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Fasulye düdüklü tencerede pişiyor.
-de
in
pişmek
to cook
fasulye
the bean
düdüklü tencere
the pressure cooker
Questions & Answers about Fasulye düdüklü tencerede pişiyor.
Why are there no articles like the or a in Fasulye düdüklü tencerede pişiyor?
Turkish does not have definite or indefinite articles in the same way English does.
- If you want to say a bean you can add bir, as in Bir fasulye düdüklü tencerede pişiyor (“A bean is cooking in the pressure cooker”).
- To mark a specific direct object you add the accusative suffix -i (with vowel harmony), but here fasulye is the subject of the intransitive verb pişmek, so it stays in the bare (nominative) form.
What does the suffix -lü in düdüklü mean?
Düdük means whistle. The adjective-forming suffix -lü (with vowel harmony) means “with”. So düdüklü literally means “with a whistle”, referring to the little steam whistle on a pressure cooker. Vowel harmony rule: düdük has front rounded vowels (ü–ü), so the suffix is -lü, not -lı, -lu, or -lo.
What role does -de play in tencerede?
-de is the locative case suffix, equivalent to English in / on / at. It attaches to tencere (pot/cooker) with vowel harmony and a buffer consonant where needed:
• tencere + -de → tencerede (“in the cooker”)
Why is the verb pişiyor placed at the end of the sentence?