Question 1

Wait, why use the "apparently" past tense (-miş) with "we" (biz)? Wouldn't the speaker remember if they had fun?

Accepted Answer

This is a very common use of the -miş past tense in Turkish! You use it for things you did but don't personally remember, like when you were a baby or a very young child. Here, the speaker is likely looking at an old photo or hearing a story about their kindergarten days, so they say eğlenmişiz ("apparently we had fun") instead of the direct past eğlendik ("we had fun").

Question 2

How exactly is the word anaokulunda built?

Accepted Answer

It is a compound word with a location suffix attached. It joins ana (mother/main) and okul (school) to make anaokulu (kindergarten). To add the "at/in" suffix (-da), you first need the buffer letter -n- because the compound word ends in a possessive suffix (the -u). So it becomes anaokulu + n + da.

Question 3

Does çok mean "very" or "a lot" in this sentence?

Accepted Answer

It means "a lot" here. While çok often means "very" before an adjective (like çok güzel - very beautiful), when it is used directly before a verb like eğlenmek (to have fun), it acts as an adverb meaning "a lot" or "much".

Question 4

Since the verb ends in -iz, is the word biz at the beginning required?

Accepted Answer

No, you can safely drop it! The ending -iz on eğlenmişiz already makes it perfectly clear that the subject is "we". Including biz at the beginning just adds a little bit of emphasis to the sentence.

Biz o gün anaokulunda çok eğlenmişiz.

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