Arkadaşım beni istasyona götürüyor.

my

Breakdown of Arkadaşım beni istasyona götürüyor.

• arkadaş: the friend
• istasyon: the station
• beni: me

Questions & Answers about Arkadaşım beni istasyona götürüyor.

Can you break down the sentence word by word and explain the suffixes?

• Arkadaş-ım = friend + 1st person possessive suffix → my friend
• ben-i = I + accusative (direct object) → me
• istasyon-a = station + dative (to/toward) → to the station
• götür-üyor = take (away) + present continuous → is taking (3rd person singular ending is zero)

Note: The present continuous is -(I)yor. Because the stem götür- ends in a consonant, a vowel is inserted based on vowel harmony. The last vowel is ü, so we get götür + üyor → götürüyor.

Why is it beni and not ben or bana?

• ben = I (subject form)
• beni = me (accusative, direct object) → needed here because “me” is the thing being taken
• bana = to me (dative) → would mean “to me,” which isn’t the role of “me” in this sentence

Handy forms:

• ben (I)
• beni (me)
• bana (to me)
• bende (on/at me)
• benden (from me)
• benim (my)

Why istasyona instead of just istasyon?