Breakdown of Öğretmenine göre sen bugün anaokulunda güzel bir resim çizmişsin.
bir
a / an
öğretmen
teacher
güzel
beautiful / nice / good
resim
picture
sen
you
çizmek
to draw
bugün
today
göre
according to / compared to
anaokulu
kindergarten
Questions & Answers about Öğretmenine göre sen bugün anaokulunda güzel bir resim çizmişsin.
Why does the sentence use çizmişsin instead of çizdin for "you drew"?
-miş is the "evidential" or "hearsay" past tense. Because the speaker didn't see you draw the picture themselves—they only heard about it from your teacher—they must use -miş instead of the direct past tense -di. The -sin at the end means "you".
How does öğretmenine göre mean "according to your teacher"?
The word göre means "according to," and it always requires the word before it to take the dative ("to/for") case ending. So, öğretmenin (your teacher) takes the dative suffix -e, becoming öğretmenine.
Could öğretmenine also mean "according to his/her teacher"?
Yes, it could! Öğretmen-in-e (your teacher + to) and Öğretmen-i-n-e (his/her teacher + buffer + to) look exactly the same in Turkish. We know it means "your teacher" here because it makes the most logical sense with the rest of the sentence, which is directed at "you" (sen).
Where does the -n- come from in anaokulunda (at kindergarten)?
Anaokulu (kindergarten) is a compound noun made of ana (main/mother) and okul (school), which naturally ends in the possessive suffix -u. Whenever you add a location ending like -da to a word that already ends with a possessive suffix, you must use the buffer letter -n- to connect them.
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