Word
Ben burada yaşıyorum ve bir kuş görüyorum.
Meaning
I am living here and I see a bird.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Ben burada yaşıyorum ve bir kuş görüyorum.
How do the verbs yaşıyorum and görüyorum show that I am the one doing the action?
Both verbs end with the personal subject suffix -um. In the present continuous tense, you always add -um (or its vowel-harmony variations) after the -yor suffix to mean I. Because of this suffix, the word ben at the start of the sentence is actually optional.
The root of the verb to live is yaşa-. Why is it spelled yaşıyorum instead of yaşayorum?
When a verb root ends in the wide vowels a or e (like yaşa-), that vowel narrows when you add the present continuous suffix. Because of vowel harmony, the a turns into an ı, giving us yaşı- + yor + um.
Why does görüyorum take the -ü- vowel before -yor, but yaşıyorum takes -ı-?
This is due to 4-way vowel harmony. The connecting vowel changes to match the last vowel of the verb root. The root gör- has an ö, so it takes ü to make görüyorum. The root yaşa- has an a, so its connecting vowel is ı.
Why is görüyorum translated as I see and not I am seeing?