Breakdown of Önceliği en acil görevlere verdik.
görev
the task
vermek
to give
en
most
acil
urgent
öncelik
the priority
-lere
to
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Questions & Answers about Önceliği en acil görevlere verdik.
Why does Önceliği have the suffix -i?
Öncelik is the noun meaning priority. The suffix -i marks the definite accusative, indicating we gave the priority (a specific one), not just any priority.
Why is there no article like the or a before öncelik?
Turkish does not use separate articles. Definiteness is often shown by the accusative suffix (-i here). So you don’t need a word for “the” or “a.”
What does en acil mean, and how does it form a superlative?
en is the superlative marker meaning most. When you put en before an adjective (acil, “urgent”), you get en acil = most urgent.
Why is görevlere in the plural dative form?
The root görev means task. The plural suffix -ler makes görevler (“tasks”). The dative suffix -e (harmonizing to -lere in the plural) marks “to” or “for” those tasks.
Which word is the subject, and why isn’t biz (we) used?
The subject is “we.” In Turkish you usually drop subject pronouns because the verb ending conveys person and number. Here verdik already means “we gave.”
Can you break down the verb verdik?
– ver-: root meaning “to give”
– -di: simple past tense marker
– -k: 1st person plural ending (“we”)
Together, verdik = “we gave.”
How does the word order differ from English?
Turkish is typically SOV (Subject-Object-Verb). Here both objects (önceliği, en acil görevlere) appear before the verb (verdik). English is SVO: “We gave priority to the most urgent tasks.”
Why is öncelik singular while görevler is plural?
You assign one priority (the concept) but apply it to multiple tasks. Hence öncelik stays singular, and görevler is plural.