Learn Turkish: Toplumda görgü kurallarına uyulur. - In society, etiquette rules are followed.

The verb uymak (to follow or conform) is intransitive, meaning it doesn't take a direct object. In Turkish, when you make an intransitive verb passive by adding the passive suffix (here, -ul- to make uyulmak), it creates an impersonal passive. It translates to a general statement like 'people follow' or 'it is followed', without specifying who is doing the action.

Why is there a dative ending on kurallarına if it translates as the subject of the English sentence?

In English, 'etiquette rules' becomes the subject ('rules are followed'). But in Turkish, the verb uymak strictly dictates the case of its object: you must conform to something (using the dative case). When an intransitive verb becomes an impersonal passive, its object keeps its original case. So the Turkish sentence is structured more literally as 'To etiquette rules, it is conformed'.

Break down the suffixes in kurallarına. Why is there an -n- before the dative ending?

Görgü kuralları (etiquette rules) is a noun compound, ending in the third-person possessive suffix -ı. When you add a case ending like the dative -a to a word that already ends in a third-person possessive, Turkish requires the buffer letter -n-. This gives us kural-lar-ı-n-a.

Why does this sentence use the aorist tense (uyulur) instead of the present continuous (uyuluyor)?