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Questions & Answers about Kuşatma devam ediyor.
What is the literal breakdown of Kuşatma?
Kuşatma comes from the verb root kuşat- (“to besiege”) plus the noun-forming suffix -ma, so it literally means “the siege” or “besieging.”
Why doesn’t Kuşatma have any case ending here?
In Turkish, the subject of a sentence (nominative) appears in its bare form without a suffix. Since Kuşatma is the subject (“the siege”) and it comes before the verb, it needs no additional ending.
Why is devam ediyor used instead of a single verb like “continues”?
Turkish uses the light-verb construction devam etmek (“to continue”). Here devam is a noun (“continuation”) and etmek (“to do”) turns it into a verb phrase. To say “is continuing,” we put etmek into the present-continuous form: devam ediyor.
How does etmek become ediyor?
Two processes occur:
- Vowel harmony: e in et- harmonizes to i before -iyor, giving it-.
- Consonant assimilation: the t between vowels becomes voiced d, so itiyor → ediyor.Result: → .