Breakdown of Dünkü rüya ve bugünkü gerçek birbirine benzemiyor.
ve
and
bugün
today
dün
yesterday
birbiri
each other / one another
benzemek
to resemble
gerçek
truth / reality
rüya
dream
Questions & Answers about Dünkü rüya ve bugünkü gerçek birbirine benzemiyor.
Why do dün and bugün get the suffix -kü instead of the usual -ki?
The suffix -ki usually does not change to follow vowel harmony. However, there are a few exceptions with time words that have rounded vowels, like dün (yesterday) and bugün (today). For these words, the suffix becomes -kü to match the vowel, giving us dünkü and bugünkü.
Could we say dünün rüyası instead of dünkü rüya?
While it might make sense grammatically as a possessive phrase, Turkish strongly prefers using the -ki suffix to turn time words directly into adjectives. Using dünkü directly before rüya is the natural way to express things that happened at a specific time.
Why is there an -ne at the end of birbirine?
The verb benzemek (to resemble) always takes the dative case, meaning you say that something resembles TO another thing. The word birbiri (each other) already contains a possessive ending, so we add the buffer consonant -n- and the dative suffix -e, making it birbirine.
The negative suffix is usually -me or -ma. Why does it look like -mi in benzemiyor?
This happens because of a rule called vowel narrowing. The verb is benzemek and its negative root is benzeme-. When we add the present continuous suffix -iyor, the -y- sound forces the wide -e in the negative suffix to narrow into an -i-, changing it to benzemiyor.
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