Breakdown of Ambulans gelir gelmez yaralıyı sedyeye aldık.
gelmek
to come
almak
to take, to buy
ambulans
ambulance
yaralı
injured / injured person
Questions & Answers about Ambulans gelir gelmez yaralıyı sedyeye aldık.
How does gelir gelmez translate to a past tense action like 'as soon as it arrived'?
The phrase gelir gelmez uses the aorist affirmative (gelir) and negative (gelmez) together to mean 'as soon as'. By itself, it doesn't have a tense. It gets its past tense meaning from the main verb of the sentence, aldık (we moved), which is in the past tense.
Why do we use the verb almak (to take) instead of a verb for moving?
While almak literally means 'to take', it is the standard verb in Turkish for placing someone or something onto a surface, a medical device, or into a vehicle. So sedyeye aldık literally means 'we took onto the stretcher', which translates most naturally to 'we moved onto the stretcher'.
Why does yaralı have the -yı ending here?
Yaralı (injured) is being used as a noun meaning 'injured person'. Since this is a specific person receiving the action of the verb, we add the definite accusative buffer -y- and case ending -ı to make yaralıyı.
Why does sedye end with -ye in this sentence?