Breakdown of Markette çok para harcadık.
market
supermarket
çok
a lot of / many
para
money
harcamak
to spend (money, time)
Questions & Answers about Markette çok para harcadık.
Why does harcadık end in -k for "we" instead of -uz?
In the present tense, the "we" suffix is usually -uz (like in biliyoruz). But the direct past tense uses a completely different set of personal endings! In the past tense, the "we" suffix is just a single -k attached right after the past tense suffix -dı.
Why is the suffix for "at" spelled as -te in markette instead of the usual -de?
The locative case suffix (meaning "at", "in", or "on") is normally -de or -da. However, because market ends in a hard consonant (t), it forces the d in the suffix to also become a hard t so they blend together smoothly. This is why it becomes -te.
Since the sentence says "a lot of money", why isn't para pluralized as paralar?
In Turkish, whenever you put a quantity word like çok (a lot) or a number before a noun, the noun itself must stay in its singular form. Because of this rule, it is always çok para and never çok paralar.
Can I use harcadık to say "we spent time" as well?