Questions & Answers about Bu cevap doğru.
Why isn't there a word for "is" in this sentence?
In Turkish, the "to be" verb for the third person (like "is" or "are") is often invisible. Doğru just means "correct", but at the end of a sentence like this, it acts as the full predicate "is correct". You could formally say doğrudur, but leaving the suffix off is very common and natural in everyday speech.
I learned that doğru is related to direction. Why does it mean "correct" here?
Doğru is a very versatile word! When you use it after a word in the dative case (like -e doğru), it acts as a postposition meaning "towards" (like eve doğru for "towards the house"). But when used on its own as an adjective, as it is in this sentence, it simply means "correct", "right", or "true".
Why isn't there a comma after Bu?
If I wanted to use this lesson's grammar and say "against this answer" (Bu cevaba karşı), why does the spelling of cevap change?
Cevap ends in a hard consonant (p). When you add a suffix starting with a vowel, like the dative -a needed for postpositions like karşı, consonant mutation happens. The hard p softens into a b, making it cevaba.
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