Breakdown of Hamama gidip gitmediğimizi kimse sormadı.
gitmek
to go
sormak
to ask
kimse
no one / anyone
hamam
Turkish bath
Questions & Answers about Hamama gidip gitmediğimizi kimse sormadı.
How exactly does gidip gitmediğimizi mean "whether or not we went"?
This is the standard Turkish way to form an indirect "yes/no" question. You take the positive verb with -(y)ip (gidip), followed immediately by the negative verb with the -dik participle and a possessive ending (gitmediğimiz). Literally, it translates to "our going and not going".
Why does the verb root git- change to gid- in the first word, but stay as git- in the second?
The verb gitmek (to go) is a common verb where the final t softens to d when you add a suffix starting with a vowel. Because the suffix -ip starts with a vowel, it becomes gidip. However, in gitmediğimizi, the negative suffix -me starts with a consonant, so the t remains hard.
Why is there an extra -i at the very end of gitmediğimizi?
That is the accusative case marker. The entire clause "whether or not we went" (gidip gitmediğimiz) acts as the direct object of the main verb sormadı (didn't ask). Because the clause has a possessive ending (-imiz, meaning "our"), it is a specific direct object and requires the accusative -i.
The English translation says "No one asked", but the Turkish verb sormadı is negative. Why?
In Turkish, indefinite pronouns like kimse (anybody/nobody) and hiç (ever/never) must be paired with a negative verb to create a negative meaning. So, kimse sormadı literally means "anybody didn't ask", which is the natural way to say "nobody asked" in Turkish.
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