Word
Strese girmeden önce meditasyon yap.
Meaning
Do meditation before getting stressed.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Strese girmeden önce meditasyon yap.
yapmak
to do / to make
girmek
to enter
önce
before / first / firstly
meditasyon
meditation
Questions & Answers about Strese girmeden önce meditasyon yap.
How is the 'before doing' grammar working in girmeden önce?
The suffix -meden (or -madan) attaches to the verb root gir- (to enter) and is followed by the word önce (before). Together, the pattern verb + -mAdAn önce means 'before doing [the verb]'. So, girmeden önce literally means 'before entering'.
Why is it -meden instead of -madan?
It depends on 2-way vowel harmony. The last vowel in the verb root gir- is 'i', which is a front vowel. Therefore, it takes the front-vowel version -meden. If the verb root had a back vowel (a, ı, o, u), like yap- (to do), it would be yapmadan önce.
Why is the verb girmek (to enter) used here for 'getting stressed'?
In Turkish, the idiomatic phrase for 'getting stressed' or 'stressing out' is strese girmek, which literally translates to 'to enter into stress'.
Why does stres have an -e at the end of it?
Because of the verb girmek (to enter). When you enter a place or a state of mind in Turkish, that destination takes the dative case (meaning 'to' or 'into'). So stres gets the suffix -e to become strese ('into stress').