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Kral ormanda eski bir kılıç bulmuş.

Kral ormanda eski bir kılıç bulmuş.
The king found an old sword in the forest.
From Lesson 119:The reported past tense (-mış, -miş)·Turkish

Breakdown of Kral ormanda eski bir kılıç bulmuş.

bir
a / an
bulmak
to find
eski
old
orman
forest
kral
king
kılıç
sword

Questions & Answers about Kral ormanda eski bir kılıç bulmuş.

Why does the sentence use bulmuş instead of the regular past tense buldu?
The suffix -muş is the reported or inferential past tense. We use it when we did not see the event happen ourselves, but heard about it from someone else, or if it is a story. Since kings finding swords in forests sounds like a fairy tale or legend, bulmuş is the perfect choice here!
Why is it eski bir kılıç instead of bir eski kılıç?
In English, we put the article first, like in 'an old sword'. But in Turkish, the word bir almost always goes between the adjective and the noun. So it becomes eski bir kılıç.
Why does the reported past tense suffix take the form -muş here?
The suffix changes according to 4-way vowel harmony (-mış, -miş, -muş, or -müş). Since the vowel in the verb root bul (to find) is u, the suffix becomes -muş.
How does the word ormanda mean 'in the forest'?
It is made of the root orman (forest) plus the locative suffix -da (in/on/at). We use -da because the last vowel in orman is an a, which follows the rules of 2-way vowel harmony.

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