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Questions & Answers about Bahçe mistik görünüyor.
What does görünüyor mean in Bahçe mistik görünüyor?
The verb görünmek means to appear or to look (like). Here görünüyor is the 3rd person singular present continuous form, so it translates as it looks or it seems.
Why does görünmek mean to appear when görmek means to see?
Görünmek is derived from görmek with the suffix -ün-, which turns it into an intransitive verb. While görmek is to see, görünmek literally means to become seen or to appear, so their meanings diverge.
Why is there no separate word for is in this sentence?
Turkish does not use a copula in the present tense with adjectives. You can simply say Bahçe güzel (The garden is beautiful) without any verb. Here, to express looks mystical, you use görünmek instead.
What part of speech is mistik, and does it change to agree with bahçe?
Mistik is an adjective (a loan from French mystique). Adjectives in Turkish do not change for gender, number, or case, so mistik stays the same even with bahçeler (plural of bahçe).
Why isn’t bahçe marked with any suffix?
Subjects in Turkish take the nominative case, which is unmarked. Since bahçe is the subject here, it remains unchanged.
Why is the present continuous suffix in görünüyor -üyor instead of -iyor?
Turkish vowel harmony requires that the vowel in -(I)yor matches the last vowel of the stem. Since görün- has ü, you use -üyor, giving görünüyor.
How do you make this sentence negative?
Insert the negative suffix -me- before -iyor:
görün + me + iyor → görünmüyor.
So you get Bahçe mistik görünmüyor (The garden doesn’t look mystical).
How do you ask Does the garden look mystical? in Turkish?
Add the question particle -mu after the last word and use rising intonation:
Bahçe mistik görünüyor mu?
How would you say The garden looked mystical in the past tense?
Use the past tense suffix -dü (vowel-harmonized) on görünmek:
görün + dü → göründü.
So: Bahçe mistik göründü (The garden looked mystical).
How do you express The garden seems mystical to me?
Add the indirect object pronoun bana (“to me”) before the verb:
Bahçe bana mistik görünüyor (The garden seems mystical to me).