Questions & Answers about Adam sıcak suyu kaseye döker ve su taşar.
Why do the verbs döker and taşar end in -er and -ar?
Both dök (pour) and taş (overflow) are single-syllable verb roots ending in a consonant. To form the aorist tense, these short verbs usually take the suffix -ar or -er according to vowel harmony. Because dök has a front vowel (ö), it takes -er to make döker. Because taş has a back vowel (a), it takes -ar to make taşar.
Why is water written as suyu in the first part of the sentence, but just su in the second part?
In the first part, the hot water is the specific object being poured by the man, so it needs the accusative case (which marks a specific direct object). The root su gets the buffer letter -y- and the accusative suffix -u to become suyu. In the second part, the water is doing the action (overflowing)—it is the subject of that clause, so it stays in its plain dictionary form, su.
Why is there a y in kaseye?
The word for bowl is kase. To say into or to the bowl, we need to add the dative suffix -e. Because kase already ends in a vowel, we must insert the buffer letter -y- to keep the two vowels from crashing together, giving us kaseye.