Questions & Answers about Seksen polis hazır değil.
Is there a trick to remembering seksen (eighty)?
Yes! Seksen comes from sekiz (eight). Just like English 'eight' and 'eighty', Turkish numbers in the tens often share roots with their single digits, though they aren't always exact matches. Notice the sek- at the beginning of both!
Why isn't it seksen polisler since there are multiple police officers?
In Turkish, when you use a number before a noun (like seksen), the noun always stays in its singular form. So, it's just seksen polis. Adding the plural ending -ler or -lar after a number is grammatically incorrect.
Why do we use değil to mean 'not' here?
Where is the word for 'are' in this sentence?
In Turkish, 'to be' (am, is, are) is usually attached as a suffix at the very end of the sentence. However, for the third person (he, she, it, they), this suffix is almost always left off in everyday language. The sentence literally translates to 'Eighty police ready not', and the 'are' is simply understood by context.
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