Questions & Answers about Resmi küçük bir fırçayla boyuyor.
How does the word fırçayla mean with a brush?
fırçayla is made from the word fırça (brush) and the suffix form of ile (with). Since fırça ends in a vowel, we need a buffer letter y before adding the suffix. We use -la instead of -le to follow vowel harmony with the hard vowels in fırça, making it fırça + y + la = fırçayla.
The dictionary word for picture is resim. Why is it written as resmi here?
Two things happen here. First, we add the specific direct object (accusative) suffix -i because the picture is the specific thing being painted. Second, resim is a word that drops its second vowel when a suffix starting with a vowel is added. So, resim + -i becomes resmi, not resimi.
Why does it say küçük bir fırçayla instead of bir küçük fırçayla?
The root of the verb to paint is boya-. Why is it boyuyor instead of boyayor?