Word
Bu video internette çok hızlı yayıldı, ben bile izledim.
Meaning
This video spread very fast on the internet, even I watched it.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Bu video internette çok hızlı yayıldı, ben bile izledim.
bu
this
ben
I
çok
very
izlemek
to watch
Questions & Answers about Bu video internette çok hızlı yayıldı, ben bile izledim.
Why does bile come after ben, unlike the English translation "even I"?
In Turkish, the emphatic particle bile (even) always comes directly after the word it emphasizes. Because the surprise or emphasis is on the speaker ("even I watched it"), bile is placed right after the pronoun ben.
Does the pronoun ben take any special case endings when used with bile?
No. When bile emphasizes a subject pronoun, the pronoun stays in its plain dictionary form (nominative case). It is simply ben bile, sen bile, o bile, and so on.
The word for "spread" here is yayıldı. What is the difference between yaymak and yayılmak?
Yaymak means to actively spread something (like spreading rumors or butter). Adding the -ıl suffix makes it passive or reflexive (yayılmak), meaning to spread on its own or be spread. Since the video spread itself around the internet, we use yayıldı.
Why is the locative suffix on the word for internet written as -te in internette?
Because the word internet ends in a voiceless (hard) consonant "t", the locative suffix -de changes to -te to match it. Loanwords in Turkish almost always adapt to standard consonant harmony rules.