Breakdown of Biletleri saat altı buçukta gişeden alalım.
altı
six
bilet
ticket
almak
to take, to buy
saat
hour / o'clock
buçuk
half past
gişe
box office / ticket window
Questions & Answers about Biletleri saat altı buçukta gişeden alalım.
How do we get 'let's buy' from alalım?
The root verb is almak (to buy/take). To say 'let's do something', we drop the -mak and add the 1st person plural optative suffix, which is either -alım or -elim. Since the root al- has a back vowel, vowel harmony dictates we use -alım, resulting in alalım.
Why is it biletleri and not just biletler?
Biletler means 'tickets' in general. Adding the accusative case suffix -i makes it biletleri, meaning 'the tickets.' We must use the accusative case here because the tickets are the specific, known direct object of the verb alalım.
Why is there a -ta at the end of altı buçukta?
In Turkish, to say you do something 'at' a specific time, you attach the locative case suffix (-da, -de, -ta, or -te) to the time expression. The word buçuk (half) ends in a hard, voiceless consonant (k), so the suffix hardens to -ta, creating buçukta (at half past).
What does the -den suffix do in gişeden?
The suffix -den is the ablative case, which translates to 'from.' When attached to the noun gişe (box office or ticket window), it becomes gişeden, meaning 'from the box office.'
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