Word
O kadın genç, akıllı ve çok başarılı.
Meaning
That woman is young, smart, and very successful.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about O kadın genç, akıllı ve çok başarılı.
How do we use ve (and) when listing several adjectives like this?
Just like in English! When you have a list of descriptions, you use commas between the first ones and put ve right before the last one: genç, akıllı ve çok başarılı (young, smart, and very successful).
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
In Turkish, the "to be" verb for "he/she/it/that" is often completely invisible in everyday speech. You don't need a separate word for "is". Just putting the subject (O kadın) and the adjectives together is enough to mean "That woman is...".
Could O mean "she" here instead of "that"?
The word O can mean "he", "she", "it", or "that". Because it is placed directly before a noun here (O kadın), it acts as the word "that" (that woman). If it meant "she", the sentence would just be O genç, akıllı... (She is young, smart...) without the word kadın.
I noticed both akıllı and başarılı end in -lı. Is that a coincidence?
Not a coincidence! The suffix -lı (or -li, depending on vowel harmony) means "with" or "having". Akıl means "mind", so akıllı is "having a mind" (smart). Başarı means "success", so başarılı is "having success" (successful).