Breakdown of Gaz odadan çabuk çıkar mı?
oda
room
çabuk
quick, quickly
çıkmak
to go out / to leave / to exit / to break out / to arise (of a storm)
mi
question particle (mı/mi/mu/mü)
Questions & Answers about Gaz odadan çabuk çıkar mı?
Why use the aorist tense (çıkar) instead of the present continuous (çıkıyor) here?
The aorist tense is perfect for general truths and scientific facts. Because this asks about how gas behaves in general, we use çıkar. If we asked Gaz odadan çabuk çıkıyor mu? (using the present continuous), it would mean "Is the gas exiting the room quickly right now?"
How is the aorist verb çıkar formed in this sentence?
The verb root is çık- (to exit / go out). For most single-syllable verbs, the aorist suffix is -ar or -er. Following A-type vowel harmony for the "ı" in çık-, it takes -ar to become çıkar (it exits). The question particle mı is then added as a separate word to make it a yes/no question.
Why does oda (room) have the -dan suffix?
The suffix -dan is the ablative (or "from") case. Verbs of motion that describe leaving or moving away from a place, like çıkmak (to exit / to go out), require the noun to take this suffix. So odadan literally means "from the room".
çabuk translates to "quick". Do we need to add a suffix to make it "quickly"?