Learn Turkish: Çocuğa ne kravat ne kemer yakışıyor. - Neither a tie nor a belt looks good on the child.

The conjunction ne... ne... carries the negative meaning all by itself. When you use it in Turkish, the verb must be grammatically positive. If you made the verb negative (yakışmıyor), it would be grammatically incorrect.

Why is the word çocuğa used instead of çocuk?

The verb yakışmak (to suit / look good on) requires the dative case, which expresses 'to' or 'for'. We add the suffix -a to çocuk. Because of consonant mutation, the hard k at the end of çocuk softens into a ğ, giving us çocuğa (literally 'to the child').

If both a tie and a belt are subjects, why is the verb singular (yakışıyor) instead of plural?

In Turkish, when the subject consists of non-human things (like kravat and kemer), the verb stays in the singular form, even if there are multiple items.

Why isn't there a word for 'a' (like bir) before kravat and kemer?

When talking about objects in a general sense, Turkish often drops the word bir. The ne... ne... structure emphasizes the general categories of ties and belts, so you don't need bir unless you are talking about one specific tie or belt.