Questions & Answers about Otel hakkında karar verdik.
Why doesn't the word otel have any endings before hakkında?
The word hakkında is a postposition meaning "about." When used with regular nouns like otel, the noun stays in its plain dictionary form. Keep in mind that personal pronouns do change and require a genitive ending, such as benim hakkımda (about me), but regular nouns do not.
Literally, what does karar verdik mean?
The verb for "to decide" in Turkish is the compound verb karar vermek, which literally translates to "to give decision." Here, verdik is the past tense form meaning "we gave," so the phrase means "we made a decision" or "we decided."
Could I say otel hakkında bir karar verdik instead?
Yes, adding bir is perfectly fine and translates to "we made a decision about the hotel." Leaving bir out, as seen in this sentence, treats karar vermek more like a single, unified action meaning "we decided."
What do the suffixes on hakkında actually do?
The word comes from the noun hak (right, truth, or share). The ending -ın acts as a possessive modifier, and -da is the locative case (in/at/on). As a learner, you don't need to break this down every time: just learn hakkında as a set word meaning "about" for third-person objects like a hotel or a book.
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