Teyzemle eniştem bugün yeni açılan küçük çiftliği gezmekten çok memnun kaldı.

My aunt and brother-in-law were very pleased to visit the newly opened small farm today.

Breakdown of Teyzemle eniştem bugün yeni açılan küçük çiftliği gezmekten çok memnun kaldı.

• bugün: today
• çok: very
• küçük: small
• benim: my

Questions & Answers about Teyzemle eniştem bugün yeni açılan küçük çiftliği gezmekten çok memnun kaldı.

What does Teyzemle eniştem mean exactly? Is it with my aunt or my aunt and my uncle?

In this sentence, Teyzemle eniştem means my aunt and my uncle.

Here is the breakdown:

• teyze = aunt
• teyzem = my aunt
• teyzemle = with my aunt / my aunt and
• eniştem = my uncle by marriage

In Turkish, -le / -la normally means with, but it is also often used like and in everyday language when joining two nouns.

So:

• teyzemle eniştem = my aunt and my uncle

This is very natural Turkish.

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Why is the verb kaldı singular? Shouldn’t it be kaldılar if the subject is two people?

Good question. In Turkish, third-person plural agreement is often optional when the subject is already clearly plural.

So both of these can work:

• Teyzemle eniştem ... memnun kaldı.
• Teyzemle eniştem ... memnun kaldılar.

The singular kaldı is very common and natural.

Turkish often does this with plural subjects:

• Çocuklar geldi. = The children came.
• Çocuklar geldiler. = also possible

Using the plural verb can sound a bit more explicit or emphatic, but the singular is completely normal.

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What does eniştem mean? Is it the same as amcam or dayım?