Breakdown of Mayıs'ta seçim var ve oy vermeyen seçmenler evde oturuyor.
ev
house
var
there is / existent
ve
and
oturmak
to sit
Questions & Answers about Mayıs'ta seçim var ve oy vermeyen seçmenler evde oturuyor.
How exactly does vermeyen turn into "who do not vote"?
It uses the negative participle we are learning in this lesson! The phrase is oy vermek (to vote, literally "to give a vote"). We take the verb root ver, add the negative suffix -me, insert the buffer letter -y-, and finally add the participle suffix -en (who/which). Put together, oy vermeyen means "who does not vote".
Both seçim and seçmenler look very similar. Are they related?
Yes, they are! They both come from the verb root seçmek, which means "to choose". Seçim means "a choosing" (an election), and seçmen means "a chooser" (a voter). It is very common in Turkish to build different nouns from a single verb root.
Why is there a "t" in Mayıs'ta instead of the usual locative suffix -da?
This is due to consonant harmony, a rule you might remember as the "Fıstıkçı Şahap" rule. Because Mayıs ends in the voiceless consonant s, the d in the suffix -da must harden into a t to match it, becoming -ta. The apostrophe is used here to separate the suffix from the capitalized proper noun.
I learned that oturmak means "to live" or "to reside". Does it mean that here?