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Video rekor kırdı ve yeni bir kitle buldu, biz bile çok şaşkınız.

Video rekor kırdı ve yeni bir kitle buldu, biz bile çok şaşkınız.
The video broke a record and found a new audience, even we are very surprised.
From Lesson 250:The particle 'even' with pronouns (bile)·Turkish

Questions & Answers about Video rekor kırdı ve yeni bir kitle buldu, biz bile çok şaşkınız.

Why does bile come after biz instead of before it?
In Turkish, the emphatic particle bile (even) always comes immediately after the word it emphasizes. Since we want to emphasize the pronoun 'we' ('even we'), it must be biz bile rather than bile biz.
Is rekor kırdı an exact translation of the English phrase 'broke a record'?
Yes! Turkish uses the exact same idiom. rekor means 'record' and kırmak means 'to break'. You conjugate it just like a regular verb, yielding kırdı (broke) in the past tense.
Why is the word order yeni bir kitle instead of bir yeni kitle?
In Turkish, when a noun is described by both an adjective (like yeni, meaning new) and the indefinite article bir (a/an), the adjective almost always comes first. The standard pattern is Adjective + bir + Noun.
What is the root of şaşkınız, and what else can it mean?
The root adjective is şaşkın, which means 'surprised', 'astonished', or sometimes 'confused'. The -ız at the end is the 'we are' personal suffix, making it 'we are surprised'.

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