Breakdown of Babam bir hikâye hatırladı ve anlattı.
bir
a / an
ve
and
baba
father
hikâye
story
anlatmak
to explain, to tell
hatırlamak
to remember
Questions & Answers about Babam bir hikâye hatırladı ve anlattı.
Why is the past tense suffix -dı for hatırladı instead of -di?
Turkish uses vowel harmony to choose the suffix. The verb root is hatırla (to remember). Because the last vowel is a, it follows the 4-way vowel harmony rule where words with a final a or ı take -dı.
Why does anlattı end in -tı instead of -dı?
This happens because of consonant harmony. The verb root anlat (to tell) ends in t, which is a voiceless (hard) consonant. When a suffix starting with d attaches to a voiceless consonant, the d changes to a t to match. So, -dı becomes -tı.
The translation says "told it," but where is the word for "it" in Turkish?
In Turkish, if the object of a verb is already obvious from the context, you can simply leave it out. Since bir hikâye (a story) was just mentioned in the first half of the sentence, saying anlattı (he told) implies that he told it.
Just to review, how is "my" added to baba to make babam?
To show ownership for "my", you add a possessive suffix to the noun. Because baba (father) already ends in a vowel, you only need to attach the single consonant -m to make babam (my father).
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