Breakdown of Arkadaşlarım ormanda kamp yapmayı seviyor.
arkadaş
friend
sevmek
to love, to like
orman
forest
kamp
camp
Questions & Answers about Arkadaşlarım ormanda kamp yapmayı seviyor.
Why is it yapmayı instead of just yapmak (to do)?
To say you like doing an action, you cannot always use the basic dictionary form. First, you turn the verb into a noun using the -mA suffix (giving us yapma). Because the main verb sevmek (to like) requires the accusative case for the specific thing being liked, we add the buffer letter -y- and the accusative suffix -ı, resulting in yapmayı.
Why is the main verb seviyor singular when the subject arkadaşlarım (my friends) is plural?
In Turkish, if a human subject already has the plural suffix (-lar or -ler), you do not have to put the plural suffix on the verb. You could say seviyorlar, but dropping it to just say seviyor is grammatically correct and very common in everyday speech.
Why doesn't the word kamp take any suffixes like the accusative case?
kamp yapmak is a compound verb meaning to camp (literally, to do camp). Because kamp is a general, non-specific concept here rather than a specific physical item they are interacting with, it takes no case endings. Only the helper verb yapmak takes the grammatical suffixes.
What does the -da suffix do in ormanda?