Questions & Answers about Delil gerekiyor.
To specify who needs something, you mark the person in the dative and keep the thing needed as the nominative subject. So:
Bana delil gerekiyor.
Literally: “To me, evidence is needed.” Replace bana with sana, ona, bize etc. for “you need,” “he/she needs,” “we need” evidence.
Generally delil is treated as a mass noun (“evidence”), so you normally keep it singular: delil gerekiyor. If you want to stress multiple items, you’d say:
Birkaç delil gerekiyor.
(“A few pieces of evidence are needed.”)
You simply change the tense of gerekmek in the same pattern:
• Past: Delil gerekiyordu. (“Evidence was needed.”)
• Future: Delil gerekecek. (“Evidence will be needed.”)
• Conditional: Delil gerekirdi. (“Evidence would be needed.”)
Gerekli is an adjective meaning necessary. For example, gerekli delil means “necessary evidence.”
Gerekiyor is a verb form (“is needed”). Delil gerekiyor means “evidence is needed.” One labels a property of the noun, the other states the action/state of needing.
This is an impersonal necessity construction. There is no agent doing the needing—just a state of necessity. It’s like saying “It is needed.” If you want to show who needs it, you add a dative pronoun:
Bana delil gerekiyor. (“I need evidence.”)
- Gerekmek: the thing needed is the subject. E.g., Delil gerekiyor.
- İhtiyaç duymak: you conjugate for the person, and the thing needed takes the dative. E.g., Delile ihtiyaç duyuyorum (“I need evidence”).
The nuance is small—ihtiyaç duymak feels slightly more formal.
Add the negative suffix -m to the verb:
Delil gerekmiyor. (“Evidence is not needed.”)
With a person marked in dative: Bana delil gerekmiyor. (“I don’t need evidence.”)