Questions & Answers about Eşin komedi veya korku filmi izliyor muydu?
How do we form the "was watching" question in izliyor muydu?
It combines the present continuous verb izliyor ("is watching") with the question particle mu, a buffer letter y, and the past tense suffix -du ("was"). Whenever you want to ask "was someone doing something?", you take the -iyor form of the verb and add a separate muydu (or muydum, muydun, etc. depending on who you are asking about).
The dictionary form of the verb "to watch" is izlemek. Why is it spelled izliyor and not izleyor here?
When a verb root ends in the vowels a or e (like izle-), that final vowel "narrows" to ı, i, u, or ü when you add the -iyor suffix. Because the vowel before the e in izle- is an i, the e turns into an i, resulting in izliyor.
Why is there an -i at the end of filmi?
This is a noun compound. In English, we just put two nouns together ("comedy movie"). In Turkish, when you combine two nouns like this, the second noun gets a possessive suffix. So, komedi + film becomes komedi filmi. Because the sentence links two types of movies with veya (or), the suffix only needs to go on the very last word: komedi veya korku filmi.
Since this is a question, shouldn't we use for "or" instead of ?