Breakdown of Akım yaşlı bir kitleye yayıldı, onlar bile abone oldu.
bir
a / an
onlar
they
yaşlı
old (people)
olmak
to become
Questions & Answers about Akım yaşlı bir kitleye yayıldı, onlar bile abone oldu.
Why does bile come after onlar instead of before it?
In Turkish, the emphatic particle bile (meaning "even") always comes immediately after the word it emphasizes. While English says "even they", Turkish puts the particle second: onlar bile (literally: "they even").
Is yayıldı related to the verb yaymak?
Yes! Yaymak means "to spread" something actively (like spreading a rumor or spreading butter). Adding the -ıl suffix makes it passive or reflexive: yayılmak means "to spread itself" or "to be spread". So here, the trend spread itself (yayıldı).
Why does kitle take the -ye ending here?
The verb yayılmak (to spread) requires the dative case (-e/-a) to show the direction or target of the spreading. Since the trend is spreading to an audience (kitle), we add the dative suffix along with the buffer letter y, resulting in kitleye.
The subject is onlar (they), so why is the verb just oldu instead of oldular?