Breakdown of Bugünkü olay bu günlük için önemli bir anı.
bu
this
bir
a / an
bugün
today
önemli
important
için
for
olay
event
günlük
diary
anı
memory
Questions & Answers about Bugünkü olay bu günlük için önemli bir anı.
Why does bugün take the suffix -kü instead of -ki here?
The suffix -ki usually ignores vowel harmony and stays exactly as -ki. However, there are a few exceptions with time words that have rounded vowels. For words like bugün (today) and dün (yesterday), the suffix changes to match them, becoming bugünkü and dünkü.
Is günlük an adjective or a noun here? I thought it meant "daily".
It is a noun here meaning "diary" or "journal". The suffix -lük attached to gün (day) creates both the adjective for "daily" (like in günlük işler - daily chores) and the noun for "diary". You can tell it is a noun here because it acts as the object of the postposition için (for this diary).
Why is the word bir placed after önemli instead of before it?
Where is the verb "is" in this sentence?
In Turkish, "is" or "are" is often implied without any ending when making simple statements in the third person (he/she/it). You could add the formal "to be" suffix -dır to make it anıdır, but in everyday language, simply ending the sentence with the noun anı (memory) is perfectly complete.
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