Breakdown of Ona biberon ve emzik veriyorum ama susmuyor.
o
that / he / she / it
ve
and
vermek
to give
susmak
to be quiet / to stop talking
ama
but
biberon
baby bottle
emzik
pacifier
Questions & Answers about Ona biberon ve emzik veriyorum ama susmuyor.
Why is it ona instead of just o or oya?
Ona means "to him" or "to her". It is the pronoun o (he/she/it) in the dative case. The letter n is a buffer letter used with pronouns (like o, bu, şu) before adding case endings, so it becomes ona instead of "oya".
Why don't biberon (bottle) and emzik (pacifier) take accusative case endings?
Because they are non-specific direct objects here. The speaker is saying "I am giving him a bottle and a pacifier," rather than "the specific bottle and the specific pacifier." In Turkish, indefinite objects just stay in their plain dictionary form.
How is the negative verb susmuyor formed?
It comes from the verb susmak (to be quiet). To make it negative in the present continuous (-yor) tense, we start with the negative suffix -ma. Because of the -yor suffix, the a narrows to become u based on vowel harmony, giving us sus-mu-yor.
Does vermek (to give) always take the dative case?
Yes, the verb vermek (to give) requires the dative case (the "to" or "for" direction) for the person receiving the object. That is why we use the dative pronoun ona (to him) here.
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