Questions & Answers about Doktor bir hap verdi ve akşam tekrar almamı söyledi.
A very literal breakdown is:
- doktor = the doctor / doctor
- bir = a / one
- hap = pill
- verdi = gave
- ve = and
- akşam = in the evening / this evening / tonight
- tekrar = again
- almamı = my taking / that I take
- söyledi = said / told
So the structure is roughly:
The doctor gave a pill and said/told me to take it again in the evening.
Because bir hap is an indefinite direct object: a pill, not the pill.
In Turkish, direct objects are often:
- unmarked if they are indefinite or non-specific
- marked with accusative if they are definite or specific
So:
- bir hap verdi = he/she gave a pill
- hapı verdi = he/she gave the pill
- bir hapı verdi is possible only in a more specific sense, something like he gave the one pill or a certain pill, but it is not the normal choice here
That is why hap appears without -ı.