Word
Vakıf öğrencilere yardım ediyor.
Meaning
The foundation helps students.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Vakıf öğrencilere yardım ediyor.
yardım etmek
to help
öğrenci
the student
vakıf
the foundation
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Questions & Answers about Vakıf öğrencilere yardım ediyor.
What case is öğrencilere in, and why does yardım etmek require that case?
Öğrencilere is in the dative case, marked by the suffix -e. In Turkish, the verb yardım etmek (“to help”) takes its object in the dative, meaning “to the students.” So öğrenciler (“students”) → öğrencilere (“to the students”).
Why is öğrenciler plural here, and what if I meant just one student?
The suffix -ler makes öğrenci (“student”) plural: öğrenciler (“students”). If you meant a single student, you’d say öğrenciye (singular dative) instead of öğrencilere.
Explain the structure of yardım ediyor. How is it built from yardım etmek?
Yardım etmek is a compound of the noun yardım (“help”) + the verb etmek (“to do”). To form the present continuous for 3rd-person singular:
- Take the stem et-
- Add the present-continuous suffix -iyor (with vowel harmony → ediyor)
- Prepend the noun: yardım
- ediyor = yardım ediyor (“is helping”).
Why doesn’t Vakıf have any suffix, and how do we know it’s the subject?
In Turkish, the nominative case (basic dictionary form) is unmarked. Vakıf appears without a suffix because it’s the subject. Subjects in the nominative usually carry no extra ending.