Questions & Answers about Ben internetten çiçek sipariş ediyorum.
Why is Ben used at the beginning? Is it mandatory?
In Turkish, the personal pronoun is usually optional because the verb ending -yorum already tells you it’s I (first person singular). You include Ben only for emphasis or clarity.
Examples:
• Ben internetten çiçek sipariş ediyorum. (with emphasis on “I”)
• İnternetten çiçek sipariş ediyorum. (more neutral)
What does the suffix -ten in internetten mean?
The suffix -ten is the ablative case, meaning “from.” So internetten literally means “from the internet,” which in English we render as “online.” Without it, internet çiçek sipariş ediyorum would be ungrammatical.
Why is it -ten and not -den in internetten?
Turkish uses vowel harmony when attaching suffixes. The word internet has front unrounded vowels (i, e), so it takes -ten (front unrounded variant). If it were a back-vowel word like kitap (a, a), you’d get kitaptan (“from the book”).
Why doesn’t çiçek take the accusative suffix -i? Shouldn’t it be çiçeği?