Breakdown of Biz ağabeyimle bütün gün tahterevallide oynamışız.
biz
we
oynamak
to play
gün
day
ile
with / by / and (linking nouns)
bütün
all, whole
ağabey
older brother
tahterevalli
seesaw
Questions & Answers about Biz ağabeyimle bütün gün tahterevallide oynamışız.
Why does the sentence start with biz (we) if the English translation says 'my older brother and I'?
In Turkish, to say 'someone and I', you typically say 'we with someone'. So biz means 'we', and ağabeyimle means 'with my older brother'. Together, biz ağabeyimle translates naturally to 'my older brother and I' in English.
Why is the verb oynamışız instead of oynadık? Where does the 'Apparently' come from?
The -mış suffix is the evidential or reported past tense. You use it when you didn't consciously experience the event or are realizing it later, like looking at an old childhood photo and deducing what happened. If you distinctly remembered doing it, you would use the regular definite past tense oynadık.
How is the word ağabeyimle put together?
Why does tahterevalli have the -de suffix?
Tahterevalli means seesaw. The -de suffix is the locative case, which means 'in', 'on', or 'at'. Because the last vowel in tahterevalli is a front vowel, Turkish vowel harmony rules require us to use -de instead of -da to mean 'on the seesaw'.
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