Questions & Answers about Kardeşim ayı gibi güçlü.
Why does gibi come after ayı instead of before it?
In Turkish, gibi is a postposition, which means it comes after the word it connects to. While English uses prepositions like 'like' before the noun ('like a bear'), Turkish places it after: ayı gibi (literally 'bear like').
Why doesn't ayı have a suffix before gibi here?
When using gibi with regular nouns like ayı (bear), the noun stays in its plain dictionary form. However, remember that if you use a personal pronoun instead, like 'me' or 'you', it needs the genitive suffix (for example, benim gibi meaning 'like me').
Does ayı gibi güçlü mean 'strong like a bear' or 'as strong as a bear'?
How do we know if kardeşim refers to a brother or a sister?
The base word kardeş (sibling) is gender-neutral. From this sentence alone, we do not know the gender. If you needed to be specific, you would say erkek kardeşim for 'my brother' or kız kardeşim for 'my sister'.
What is the role of the -lü suffix in the word güçlü?
The root word is the noun güç, meaning 'strength' or 'power'. The suffix -lü (which follows 4-way vowel harmony as -lı, -li, -lu, or -lü) means 'with' or 'having'. Therefore, güçlü literally means 'with strength', giving us the adjective 'strong'.
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