Word
Öğretmen bu zor soruyu çözdü.
Meaning
The teacher solved this difficult question.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Öğretmen bu zor soruyu çözdü.
Why is there no personal suffix on çözdü if we are learning about past tense personal suffixes?
In Turkish, the third-person singular (he, she, it, or in this case, Öğretmen) doesn't take an extra personal suffix in the past tense. You just take the verb stem çöz- and add the past tense marker -dü.
Why does çözdü use -dü instead of the standard -di past tense ending?
This is because of 4-way vowel harmony. The vowel in the verb stem çöz- is ö. According to the rules, if the last vowel is o or ö, the suffix must use ü.
Why are there extra letters at the end of soruyu?
The root word is soru (question). Because the teacher solved this specific question, it needs the accusative case ending, which marks specific direct objects. The suffix is -u to match the u in soru, and the buffer letter -y- is added to keep the two vowels from touching.
Why does bu zor come before soruyu?
Just like in English, demonstratives (bu meaning this) and adjectives (zor meaning difficult) come right before the noun they describe.