Breakdown of Meyve salatası ucuz ve güzel.
güzel
beautiful / nice / good
ucuz
cheap
ve
and
meyve
fruit
salata
salad
Questions & Answers about Meyve salatası ucuz ve güzel.
Why is it salatası instead of just salata?
In Turkish, when you combine two nouns to make a general category (like fruit salad), the second noun gets a possessive suffix. Since salata (salad) ends in a vowel, we add the buffer letter s and the vowel ı, making it salatası.
Why doesn't meyve (fruit) get a suffix in this compound?
We use the bare form meyve because we are talking about a type of thing (a fruit salad), not a specific fruit's salad. In these indefinite noun compounds, only the second word gets the possessive suffix.
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
There isn't one! In Turkish, the verb "to be" (am/is/are) is often invisible in the third person (he/she/it). You can just place the adjectives ucuz (cheap) and güzel (nice) right after the subject to say the salad is cheap and nice.
Can güzel mean things other than "beautiful"?
Yes! While güzel is often translated as "beautiful", it is used very broadly in Turkish. When talking about food like meyve salatası, it usually means "nice", "delicious", or "good".
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