Kepçe ve maşa lavabonun yanında dursun; sıcak tepsiyi taşırken ikisine de ihtiyaç oluyor.

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Breakdown of Kepçe ve maşa lavabonun yanında dursun; sıcak tepsiyi taşırken ikisine de ihtiyaç oluyor.

• sıcak: hot
• ve: and
• taşımak: to carry

Questions & Answers about Kepçe ve maşa lavabonun yanında dursun; sıcak tepsiyi taşırken ikisine de ihtiyaç oluyor.

What does dursun mean here?

Dursun comes from durmak, which often means to stand, to stay, or to remain.

Here, dursun is a third-person imperative/optative form, and it means something like:

• let it stay
• have it remain
• it should stay

So Kepçe ve maşa lavabonun yanında dursun means something like:

• Let the ladle and the tongs stay by the sink.

It sounds like an instruction, but less direct than telling you to do something with -in / -ın. Turkish often uses this form for practical instructions about where things should be.

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Why is it dursun and not dursunlar, since there are two things: kepçe ve maşa?