Word
Her yıl seyahat etmek istiyor mu?
Meaning
Does he want to travel every year?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Her yıl seyahat etmek istiyor mu?
istemek
to want / to require / to call for
her
every
yıl
year
seyahat etmek
to travel
Questions & Answers about Her yıl seyahat etmek istiyor mu?
Why is etmek in its full dictionary (infinitive) form here?
When you express wanting to do an action, the main action verb stays in the infinitive form (ending in -mak or -mek), and you only conjugate the verb istemek (to want). Since the sentence says he wants to travel, seyahat etmek (to travel) stays in the infinitive, and istiyor gets the present continuous ending.
The verb for "to want" is istemek. Why does it become istiyor instead of isteyor?
When a verb stem ends in a vowel (like the -e in iste-) and you add the continuous tense ending -yor, the final vowel changes or "narrows." Here, the -e turns into an -i, making it istiyor. This happens because -yor is a very strong ending that modifies the vowel before it.
Why do we use two words, seyahat etmek, to say "to travel"?
In Turkish, many verbs are made by combining a noun with a helper verb like etmek (to do / to make). Seyahat is a noun meaning "a journey" or "travel," so seyahat etmek literally means "to do travel" or "to make a journey."
Why isn't yıl plural if it means "every year"?