Word
Odayı temizlemeye üşeniyor musun?
Meaning
Are you too lazy to clean the room?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Odayı temizlemeye üşeniyor musun?
oda
room
temizlemek
to clean
mi
question particle (mı/mi/mu/mü)
üşenmek
to be too lazy
Questions & Answers about Odayı temizlemeye üşeniyor musun?
Why does temizlemeye end with -ye instead of just being the infinitive temizlemek?
To say you are too lazy to do something, Turkish uses the verbal noun (the -me or -ma form) plus the dative case (-e or -a). Here, temizle (clean) becomes the verbal noun temizleme (cleaning). Because the main verb üşenmek (to be too lazy) directs your feeling towards an action, it requires the dative case. We add the buffer -y- and the dative -e, giving us temizlemeye.
How exactly does the verb üşenmek work?
Üşenmek is a very common Turkish verb that doesn't have a perfect single-word English equivalent. It means to lack the energy to do something, to feel reluctant, or to be "too lazy" to do it in that moment. It always takes the dative case (-e or -a) for the action you are avoiding!
Why is it odayı instead of just oda?
The -yı suffix is the accusative case (direct object marker). We use it here because we are talking about a specific room ("the room") that is receiving the action of being cleaned. If you just said oda temizlemeye, it would mean cleaning a room or rooms in general.
Why is the "you" ending (-sun) on the question word mu rather than on the verb ?