Breakdown of Yaşlılık gelince insanlar çok yoruluyor.
çok
very
insan
person
gelmek
to come
yorulmak
to get tired
yaşlılık
old age
Questions & Answers about Yaşlılık gelince insanlar çok yoruluyor.
How is the word yaşlılık formed?
It actually uses two suffixes! It starts with the root yaş (age). Adding -lı (with/having) creates the adjective yaşlı (aged or old). Finally, adding the current lesson's suffix -lık turns that adjective into the abstract noun yaşlılık (old age).
What does the suffix on gelince mean?
The -ince suffix (which follows 4-way vowel harmony) attaches directly to a verb stem to mean 'when' or 'as soon as'. Here, adding it to gel (come) creates gelince (when it comes). It acts as a bridge connecting the two parts of the sentence.
Why is the verb yoruluyor and not yoruyor?
The base verb yormak means 'to tire someone else out'. To say that people are getting tired themselves, Turkish adds the suffix -ul to make it yorulmak (to get tired). So, insanlar yoruluyor correctly means 'people get tired'.
Why does this sentence use the continuous tense (-uyor) for a general fact?
In everyday Turkish, the present continuous tense (-iyor / -uyor) is frequently used for general facts, habits, and universal truths, much like the simple present tense in English. While you might also see the aorist tense used for facts (yorulur), yoruluyor is very natural and common here.
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