Breakdown of Hastanede röntgen çektiler, çünkü dirseğim çok ağrıyordu.
çok
very
benim
my
çünkü
because
çekmek
to take
Questions & Answers about Hastanede röntgen çektiler, çünkü dirseğim çok ağrıyordu.
Why is it hastanede?
Hastanede is hastane (hospital) + -de, the locative ending, which means in/at.
- hastane = hospital
- hastanede = in/at the hospital
So Hastanede röntgen çektiler means They took an X-ray at the hospital.
A learner may also compare:
- hastaneye = to the hospital
- hastaneden = from the hospital
- hastanede = at/in the hospital
Why does the sentence use çektiler? Who is they?
In Turkish, third person plural can be used when the people are not specifically named but are understood from context.
So çektiler literally means they took, but here it really means something like:
- they took an X-ray
- the doctors/staff took an X-ray
- someone at the hospital took an X-ray
This is very natural in Turkish. It often works like an unspecified they in English.
So the sentence does not necessarily mean a specific group of people is important; it just means the action was done by hospital staff.
Why is it röntgen çekmek? Doesn’t çekmek usually mean ?