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?

Good question. In Turkish, when the subject is already clearly stated, the verb does not always need plural marking.

So even though kepçe ve maşa refers to two items, dursun is still natural. Turkish often leaves the verb in the singular when:

• the subject is already explicit
• the nouns are inanimate
• the sentence is giving a general instruction

You could hear dursunlar in some contexts, but dursun is very normal here.

So:

• Kepçe ve maşa ... dursun = natural
• Kepçe ve maşa ... dursunlar = possible, but not necessary

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Why is it lavabonun yanında? What is the grammar of that phrase?