Breakdown of Çocuk güzel bir hediye seçiyor.
bir
a / an
çocuk
child
güzel
beautiful / nice / good
hediye
gift
Questions & Answers about Çocuk güzel bir hediye seçiyor.
The current lesson is about the accusative case. Why doesn't hediye have an accusative suffix here?
Because it is an indefinite object. In Turkish, you only use the accusative suffix for definite direct objects (like 'the gift' or 'this gift'). Because the child is choosing bir hediye (a gift), the word hediye stays in its plain form without a suffix.
How would we change this to say 'The child is choosing THE beautiful gift'?
You would remove bir (a/an) and add the accusative suffix to the object. Since hediye ends in a vowel, you need the buffer letter y before adding the suffix -i. The sentence would become: Çocuk güzel hediyeyi seçiyor.
Why is the word order güzel bir hediye instead of bir güzel hediye?
How is the verb seçiyor formed?