Breakdown of Bence o soruyu aptalca cevapladı.
o
that / he / she / it
ben
I
soru
question
cevaplamak
to answer
Questions & Answers about Bence o soruyu aptalca cevapladı.
How does adding -ce to ben make it mean "in my opinion"?
The suffix -ce or -ca is used to show perspective when added to pronouns or nouns representing people. So ben (I/me) becomes bence (according to me / in my opinion). You can also do this with sen to make sence (in your opinion).
Does the -ca in aptalca do the same thing as the -ce in bence?
It is the exact same suffix, but it has a different function here. When attached to adjectives like aptal (stupid), it acts as an adverbial suffix. It turns the adjective into an adverb, telling us how the action was done (stupidly / in a stupid way).
The translation says "he answered that question". Where is the word for "he"?
In Turkish, the subject pronoun is often dropped because the verb ending already tells us who did the action. cevapladı is in the third-person singular (he/she/it). The word o in this sentence isn't the pronoun "he"; it is a demonstrative adjective meaning "that", attached directly to soruyu to mean "that question".
Why does soru (question) have the -yu ending?