Breakdown of El yapımı çikolatalar özenle küçük kutularda paketleniyor.
küçük
small
çikolata
the chocolate
özenle
carefully
el yapımı
handmade
paketlenmek
to be packaged
kutularda
in the boxes
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Questions & Answers about El yapımı çikolatalar özenle küçük kutularda paketleniyor.
What does el yapımı literally mean and how is it constructed?
el = “hand”
yapım = “making/production” (from the verb yapmak)
Together el yapımı = “handmade.” It’s a noun phrase used attributively before çikolatalar.
Why does çikolatalar only have the plural suffix -lar and no other ending?
çikolata (“chocolate”) + plural -lar → çikolatalar (“chocolates”). As the subject (nominative) in Turkish, it takes no additional case ending. Subjects are unmarked.
What part of speech is özenle, and how is it formed?
özen is a noun meaning “care.” Adding the instrumental/adverbial suffix -le (“with”) yields özenle = “with care,” i.e. “carefully.”
Why does küçük come before kutularda, and what does it do?
Adjectives precede the nouns they modify in Turkish. küçük (“small”) modifies kutular (“boxes”) to give “small boxes.”
What case and number is kutularda, and how is it built?
kutu = “box”
- plural -lar → kutular (“boxes”)
- locative -da → kutularda (“in boxes” / “in the boxes”).
Vowel harmony: u in kutu triggers -da.
How do you break down paketleniyor morphologically?
paket (loanword “package”)
- -le (verb‐forming suffix “to package”)
- -n (passive voice marker)
- -iyor (present continuous tense)
→ “is being packaged.”
Why is there no explicit actor doing the packaging?
The verb is in the passive voice (marked by -n), so the agent (“they” or “someone”) is understood or unimportant and thus omitted.
What is the typical word order in this sentence?
Turkish follows Subject–(Adverbials)–Verb (S-A-V). Here:
Subject: El yapımı çikolatalar
Manner adverb: özenle
Locative adverbial: küçük kutularda
Verb: paketleniyor