Questions & Answers about Koşmayın, yavaş yürüyün.
Who is this sentence talking to?
The suffixes -ın in koşmayın and -ün in yürüyün show that this is either addressed to a group of people (plural) or to one person in a polite, formal way. If you were talking to one friend, you would just use the informal forms: koşma and yürü.
Why is there an extra y in yürüyün?
The verb root is yürü (walk), which ends in a vowel. The plural command suffix is -ün. In Turkish, we use the buffer letter -y- to prevent two vowels from crashing together, giving us yürüyün.
How is the negative formed in koşmayın?
To make a command negative, you add the suffix -ma or -me right after the verb root. Here, koş (run) becomes koşma, and then the plural suffix -yın is added at the very end.
Why is the ending -yın in the first verb but -yün in the second?
This is because of Vowel Harmony. The negative suffix in koşmayın ends with the vowel a, so it takes the matching -ın ending. The root yürü ends with the vowel ü, so it takes the -ün ending.
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