Breakdown of Yengem ve dayım acele etti çünkü hastaneye gitmeleri lazımdı.
hastane
hospital
ve
and
gitmek
to go
çünkü
because
lazım
necessary
acele etmek
to hurry
dayı
uncle (maternal)
yenge
aunt-in-law / sister-in-law
Questions & Answers about Yengem ve dayım acele etti çünkü hastaneye gitmeleri lazımdı.
How does gitmeleri lazımdı mean 'they had to go'?
This is the past personal necessity structure. It combines git (go) with the short verbal noun ending -me, followed by the possessive ending -leri (their). Then we add lazımdı (was necessary). Literally, it translates to 'their going was necessary,' which is how Turkish expresses 'they had to go.'
Why is yengem translated as 'aunt-in-law' instead of just 'aunt'?
Turkish has very specific words for family members. Teyze is your mother's sister, and hala is your father's sister. Yenge is used for a woman who marries into the family, such as a brother's wife or an uncle's wife. Since she is paired with dayım (maternal uncle), this refers to the uncle and his wife.
There are two people doing the action. Why is the verb acele etti singular instead of acele ettiler?
In Turkish, when you have a plural subject that refers to humans, you can choose to make the verb singular or plural. Both acele etti and acele ettiler are grammatically correct here, but using the singular form for a compound subject is very common and natural.
Why does hastane change to hastaneye in this sentence?
The verb gitmek (to go) requires the destination to take the dative case ending, meaning 'to' or 'towards'. The dative endings are -e or -a. Because hastane (hospital) ends in a vowel, we must insert the buffer consonant -y- before adding the -e ending to prevent two vowels from clashing.
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