Word
Dudakların kurumuş olmalı; biraz su içsen iyi olur.
Meaning
Your lips must have dried out; it would be good if you drank some water.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Dudakların kurumuş olmalı; biraz su içsen iyi olur.
olmak
to be
su
the water
içmek
to drink
iyi
good
Questions & Answers about Dudakların kurumuş olmalı; biraz su içsen iyi olur.
Why is it dudakların and not just dudaklar?
Dudakların means your lips.
It is built like this:
- dudak = lip
- dudaklar = lips
- dudakların = your lips
The ending -ın / -in / -un / -ün can mark possession, depending on vowel harmony. Here it shows that the lips belong to you.
So:
- dudaklar = lips
- dudakların = your lips
Turkish often leaves out the pronoun sen (you) when the possession ending already makes it clear.
Why is dudak plural in Turkish? In English we often say your lips, but sometimes body parts work differently across languages.
In Turkish, dudaklar / dudakların is perfectly natural because a person normally has two lips, so the plural is used just as in English.
That said, Turkish body-part expressions do not always match English exactly. Some nouns may appear singular where English prefers plural, and vice versa. In this sentence, though, dudakların = your lips is the normal choice.
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