Breakdown of Vejetaryen davetlilerden başka herkes et yiyor.
yemek
to eat
et
meat
herkes
everyone
-den başka
besides / except for
davetli
guest (invited) / invitee
vejetaryen
vegetarian
Questions & Answers about Vejetaryen davetlilerden başka herkes et yiyor.
How does başka mean "except for" in this sentence?
On its own, başka means "other" or "different". But when it follows a noun with the ablative case suffix (like -dan or -den, which usually mean "from"), the combination -den başka means "except for" or "other than". In this sentence, davetlilerden başka translates to "except for the guests".
Can you break down the suffixes on the word davetlilerden?
It starts with the noun davet (invitation). Adding the suffix -li creates the noun davetli (invited person or guest). Then we add the plural suffix -ler to get davetliler (guests). Finally, the ablative suffix -den is added because it is required by the postposition başka.
Why is "meat" translated as et without any case suffix, like eti?
Because it is a general, indefinite direct object (they are just "eating meat"). If the sentence meant "everyone is eating THE meat" (a specific, known portion of meat), we would need the specific direct object suffix (the accusative case) and it would become eti yiyor.
The verb for "to eat" is yemek. Why does it become yiyor instead of yeyor?
When a verb stem ends in the vowels a or e (like the stem ye-), adding the present continuous suffix -yor triggers a rule called vowel narrowing. The wide vowel e narrows to the closed vowel i, making the correct form yiyor.
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