Learn Turkish: Bizi güldürenler, bizi ağlatanlardan daha yetenekli. - The ones who make us laugh are more talented than the ones who make us cry.

Bizi güldürenler, bizi ağlatanlardan daha yetenekli.

The ones who make us laugh are more talented than the ones who make us cry.

Breakdown of Bizi güldürenler, bizi ağlatanlardan daha yetenekli.

Questions & Answers about Bizi güldürenler, bizi ağlatanlardan daha yetenekli.

Why are there no words for 'people' or 'ones' in güldürenler and ağlatanlar?

The suffixes -en and -an create relative clauses meaning 'who do something'. Usually, you put a noun after them, like güldüren insanlar (people who make us laugh). If you omit the noun, the verb takes over its job and gets the plural suffix directly, becoming güldürenler (the ones who make us laugh).

I see the root verbs gül (laugh) and ağla (cry). What do the -dür and -t suffixes do?

These are causative suffixes. They change an action into making someone else do that action. So gülmek is to laugh, but güldürmek is to make someone laugh. Similarly, ağlatmak is to make someone cry.

Why does ağlatanlardan have the -dan suffix?

In Turkish, comparisons use the ablative case, which means adding -dan or -den (from) to the thing you are comparing against. To say 'more talented than the ones who make us cry', you literally say 'more talented from the ones who make us cry'.

Why do we use the accusative case bizi instead of just biz?