Breakdown of Patron ona zam vermiyormuş çünkü çok çalışmıyormuş.
o
that / he / she / it
çok
a lot of / many
çalışmak
to work / to study
vermek
to give
patron
boss
çünkü
because
zam
raise / price increase
Questions & Answers about Patron ona zam vermiyormuş çünkü çok çalışmıyormuş.
Why does this sentence use -yormuş instead of just -yor on the verbs?
The -muş suffix added to the present continuous -yor creates the inferential present continuous. It shows that you did not see this happening yourself; you heard about it from someone else or deduced it. That is why the English translation includes 'I heard...'
Why do both verbs (vermiyormuş and çalışmıyormuş) have the hearsay suffix?
Because both parts of the sentence—the boss not giving a raise, and the employee not working hard—are things the speaker heard second-hand. In Turkish, if the whole situation is hearsay, it is common to mark both the main verb and the verb in the çünkü (because) clause with -muş.
The negative suffix is usually -me or -ma. Why is it vermiyormuş and çalışmıyormuş here?
This is a great refresher on vowel narrowing! When a verb ending in a broad vowel, like the negative suffixes -me and -ma, is followed by -yor, the vowel narrows to ı, i, u, or ü. So, ver-me-yor-muş becomes vermiyormuş, and çalış-ma-yor-muş becomes çalışmıyormuş.
Why does the sentence use ona instead of onu?
The verb vermek (to give) requires the dative case for the receiver of the action, because you are giving a raise TO someone. The pronoun o (he/she) takes the dative suffix -a along with the buffer letter -n-, becoming ona.
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