Questions & Answers about Sağlık için diyet yapıyor.
Why is it yapıyor ("doing") instead of a verb for "being on"?
In Turkish, many activities use the helper verb yapmak (to do/make). While in English you "go on" or "are on" a diet, in Turkish you literally "do a diet" (diyet yapmak).
The translation says "for her health", but I don't see a possessive suffix on sağlık. Why is that?
How does the word sağlık break down?
The suffix -lık turns adjectives or nouns into abstract nouns. Here, it attaches to sağ, which means "alive" or "healthy" (as well as "right"), to create sağlık (health).
Does diyet mean diet as in "everything I eat" or just "a restricted diet"?
In Turkish, diyet usually means a restricted eating plan to lose weight or manage a medical condition. To talk about general everyday nutrition, you would use the word beslenme.
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