Uzun yolculuk beni yoruyor.

long

Breakdown of Uzun yolculuk beni yoruyor.

• beni: me
• yolculuk: the journey
• yormak: to tire

Questions & Answers about Uzun yolculuk beni yoruyor.

Which part of the sentence is the subject?

The subject is uzun yolculuk.

In Turkish, the thing doing the action does not need a special ending in a basic sentence. Here:

• uzun = long
• yolculuk = journey / trip
• uzun yolculuk = a long journey / long travel

So uzun yolculuk is the thing that is causing the tiring.

The object is beni = me.

So the structure is:

• uzun yolculuk = subject
• beni = object
• yoruyor = is tiring / tires

Why is it beni and not ben?

Because beni is the accusative/object form of ben.

• ben = I
• beni = me

In this sentence, the journey is affecting me, so Turkish uses the object form:

• Uzun yolculuk beni yoruyor.
• Literally: Long journey me tires / is tiring me.

This is similar to English I vs me:

• I am tired.
• The journey tires me.

What does yoruyor mean exactly, and how is it built?