Word
Bu ambalajların hiçbiri güzel değil.
Meaning
None of these packagings are beautiful.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Bu ambalajların hiçbiri güzel değil.
bu
this
güzel
beautiful / nice / good
değil
not
ambalaj
packaging
Questions & Answers about Bu ambalajların hiçbiri güzel değil.
Why does hiçbiri have an -i at the end?
The base word is hiçbir (none). The -i is the 3rd person singular possessive suffix. It connects to the genitive suffix -ın on ambalajların to form a possessive compound, literally meaning "the none of the packagings".
To say "none of the packagings", why do we need the suffix -ın on ambalajların?
The English translation says "these packagings", so why is it Bu instead of the plural Bunlar?
In Turkish, adjectives don't take plural markers. When a demonstrative word like bu (this/these) is used directly before a noun, it always stays singular, even if the noun itself is plural.
Why is it güzel değil rather than the plural güzel değiller?
Two reasons! First, the pronoun hiçbiri (none of them) takes a singular verb or predicate. Second, when a plural subject is not human (like packagings), Turkish normally uses the singular form for the verb or predicate anyway.