Breakdown of Attığın düğüm yanlış, başka halat kullanmak gerekiyordu.
kullanmak
to use
yanlış
wrong
başka
other / another / else
gerek
necessary
Questions & Answers about Attığın düğüm yanlış, başka halat kullanmak gerekiyordu.
How does "kullanmak gerekiyordu" show past necessity?
This is the structure from our current lesson. To say "it was necessary to [do something]" or "[doing something] was required", you use the full dictionary form of the verb (kullanmak, meaning "to use") followed by gerekiyordu. Gerekiyordu is the past continuous form of gerekmek (to be necessary).
I thought atmak meant "to throw". Why is attığın translated as "you tied"?
In Turkish, certain nouns pair with specific verbs to express an action. To tie a knot is düğüm atmak (literally "to throw a knot"). So in this context, the action is tying, not throwing.
How does atmak turn into attığın to mean "that you tied"?
This uses a special suffix -dık (which becomes -tık after hard consonants) to make a descriptive word out of a verb. Adding the personal ending -ın (meaning "your") changes the k to a soft ğ due to consonant mutation. Literally, attığın düğüm means "your tied knot" or "the knot that you tied".
Why does gerekiyordu use the continuous -iyor ending if the necessity was in the past?