Breakdown of Yaşlı köpeğin o kanepede sürekli horluyor muydu?
o
that / he / she / it
köpek
dog
yaşlı
old (people)
mi
question particle (mı/mi/mu/mü)
Questions & Answers about Yaşlı köpeğin o kanepede sürekli horluyor muydu?
How does the grammar in horluyor muydu work?
This is the past continuous question form! We start with the present continuous verb horluyor (is snoring). Then we add the question particle mu. Finally, to make it past tense (was snoring?), we attach the past suffix -du. We need the buffer letter y between the two vowels, giving us the separate word muydu.
Why does köpeğin have a ğ instead of a k?
The root word for dog is köpek. When we add the possessive suffix -in to mean "your dog," the hard k at the end of the word is caught between two vowels. This causes consonant mutation, where the k softens into a ğ, making it köpeğin instead of "köpekin".
If the verb is horlamak (to snore), why is it written as horluyor?
Whenever a verb root ends in a or e (like horla-), adding the -yor suffix makes that final vowel narrow. Following vowel harmony rules, the a changes to an u, so it becomes horluyor instead of "horlayor".
Does the word sürekli have to go exactly where it is?