Breakdown of Okul çantası çok ağırdı ve ben yorgundum.
ben
I
yorgun
tired
çok
very
okul
school
çanta
bag
ve
and
ağır
heavy
Questions & Answers about Okul çantası çok ağırdı ve ben yorgundum.
How do we say "was" in ağırdı and yorgundum?
We use the past tense suffix for nouns and adjectives. Depending on vowel harmony, it can be -di, -dı, -du, or -dü. Here, ağır (heavy) takes -dı to become ağırdı (it was heavy), and yorgun (tired) takes -du to become yorgundu (it was tired).
Why does yorgundum have an "m" at the end, but ağırdı doesn't?
The -m is the personal ending for "I" (first person). So yorgun-du-m means "I was tired". In ağırdı, the subject is the school bag ("it" or third person), which doesn't take any extra personal ending after the past tense suffix.
Why is the word for bag çantası instead of just çanta?
Because it is part of a noun compound. When we combine two nouns to make a specific type of thing like "school bag", the second noun gets a possessive ending. Since çanta ends in a vowel, we add the buffer letter -s- and the vowel -ı, making okul çantası.
Do I have to say ben yorgundum or can I just say yorgundum?
You can just say yorgundum! Because the -m ending already tells us that "I" am the subject, the word ben is optional. It is used here just for a little extra emphasis.
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