Word
Akşam bahçede arkadaşlarla saklambaç oynamak çok keyifli.
Meaning
Playing hide-and-seek with friends in the garden in the evening is very enjoyable.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Akşam bahçede arkadaşlarla saklambaç oynamak çok keyifli.
olmak
to be
çok
very
arkadaş
the friend
ile
with
Questions & Answers about Akşam bahçede arkadaşlarla saklambaç oynamak çok keyifli.
What is the function of the suffix -de in bahçede, and why is it -de instead of -da?
The suffix -de marks the locative case (“in/at”). Here bahçe (garden) + -de → bahçede means in the garden. Because of Turkish vowel harmony, the vowel of the suffix matches the last vowel of the stem. bahçe has a front unrounded vowel e, so you use -de, not -da.
What does arkadaşlarla mean, and how is that form built?
Arkadaşlarla means with friends. First you make arkadaş (friend) plural with -lar → arkadaşlar (friends). Then you add the comitative/instrumental suffix -la → arkadaşlarla = “together/with friends.”
Why is saklambaç oynamak in the infinitive rather than a personal verb form?
In Turkish the infinitive (-mak/-mek) can function like a noun (a gerund). Here saklambaç oynamak literally means “to play hide-and-seek,” and that whole phrase acts as the subject of the sentence.
Why doesn’t saklambaç have an accusative suffix (like saklambaçı) in saklambaç oynamak?
Turkish only uses the accusative suffix -ı/-i/-u/-ü on definite or specific direct objects. Game names used generically (like hide-and-seek) stay unmarked. Adding an accusative here would sound odd.