Breakdown of İlkbaharda orman yemyeşil ve tertemiz olur.
ve
and
orman
forest
olmak
to become
ilkbahar
spring
Questions & Answers about İlkbaharda orman yemyeşil ve tertemiz olur.
How is the word yemyeşil formed?
The base adjective is yeşil (green). To make it stronger, Turkish takes the first vowel sound of the word (ye), adds a special consonant (here, m), and attaches this prefix to the original word. This gives us ye + m + yeşil to mean lush green.
Why does tertemiz use an r while yemyeşil uses an m?
The intensifying consonants are m, p, r, and s. Unfortunately, there is no strict grammatical rule for which consonant a specific adjective takes. You just have to learn them as set vocabulary. For temiz (clean), the traditional consonant is r, making it tertemiz (spotlessly clean).
Why does this sentence use olur instead of oluyor?
The verb olmak here means to become. The suffix -ur puts it in the aorist tense, which is used for general facts and recurring events. Because the forest becoming green in spring is a natural rule that happens every year, rather than a continuous action happening right at this moment, the aorist tense is the most natural choice.
What does the ilk part of İlkbaharda mean?