Breakdown of On iki kişi adalet ve özgürlük için yürüyor.
iki
two
on
ten
ve
and
kişi
person (individual)
yürümek
to walk
için
for
özgürlük
freedom
adalet
justice
Questions & Answers about On iki kişi adalet ve özgürlük için yürüyor.
Why is kişi (person) not plural even though the sentence says 'twelve people'?
In Turkish, when a noun comes directly after a number, it always stays in its singular form. You say on iki kişi (twelve person), never on iki kişiler.
Why does the verb yürüyor (walking) not have the plural ending -lar?
Because the subject includes a specific number (on iki), Turkish grammar prefers to keep the verb in the singular form, just like the noun kişi. Adding -lar to make it yürüyorlar wouldn't be strictly wrong, but the singular yürüyor is much more common and natural here.
This lesson is about karşı (against), but this sentence uses için (for). How would we change the sentence to say they are walking against something?
While için (for) doesn't require a special case ending on standard nouns like adalet, the postposition karşı (against) requires the dative case (-e or -a). To say they are walking against injustice (adaletsizlik), you would have to add the dative suffix: adaletsizliğe karşı yürüyor.
How is the word özgürlük (freedom) formed?
It comes from the adjective özgür (free). The suffix -lük (which adapts to vowel harmony as -lık, -lik, -luk, -lük) turns adjectives into abstract nouns, just like the English ending '-dom' in 'freedom' or '-ness' in 'happiness'.
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