Breakdown of Müsait bir gün bulalım ve festivale katılalım.
bir
a / an
ve
and
bulmak
to find
gün
day
katılmak
to attend / to join
müsait
available / free
festival
festival
Questions & Answers about Müsait bir gün bulalım ve festivale katılalım.
How do we get "let's find" from bulalım?
It comes from the verb root bul- (to find). To say "let's do something" (the optative mood), we add -a or -e depending on vowel harmony, and then the "we" ending -lım. Since bul- has a back vowel (u), we add -a to get bulalım (let's find).
Why is it müsait bir gün instead of bir müsait gün?
Why is it festivale and not festivala? Doesn't the last vowel 'a' require a back vowel suffix?
Normally, yes. However, festival is a borrowed foreign word ending in a "soft" L sound. Because of this, it breaks the usual vowel harmony rules and takes the front vowel -e for the dative case. Note that the dative case (meaning "to" or "towards") is required here because the verb katılmak (to join) always demands it for the thing you are joining.
What is the root of the second verb, katılalım?
The root is katıl- (to join or to attend). Just like the first verb, it takes the -a suffix and the -lım ending to mean "let's join". When connecting two suggestions with ve (and), both verbs take this optative "let's" form.
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