Breakdown of Bugün özellikle sebzeli sandviç istiyorum.
bugün
today
istemek
to want
özellikle
especially
sandviç
the sandwich
Questions & Answers about Bugün özellikle sebzeli sandviç istiyorum.
What does each word do, and what’s the basic word order?
- Bugün = today (time adverb)
- özellikle = especially (adverb)
- sebzeli = with vegetables (adjectival form of sebze “vegetable” + suffix -li “with”)
- sandviç = sandwich (noun)
- istiyorum = I want (verb) Turkish defaults to Subject–Object–Verb. Adverbs like time and manner typically come before the object and/or the verb, so this order is very natural: [time] [manner] [object] [verb].
Why doesn’t the object have the accusative ending (-i)? Why not sebzeli sandviçi?
Because the object here is indefinite (“a vegetable sandwich”). Indefinite direct objects in Turkish are left unmarked. If you add the accusative (-i/-ı/-u/-ü), you point to a specific, known sandwich: sebzeli sandviçi istiyorum = “I want the/a particular vegetable sandwich.”
What does the suffix -li in sebzeli mean, and how does vowel harmony affect it?