Word
Kimse şarkı mırıldanmaz çünkü bu çok kaba bir davranış.
Meaning
No one hums a song because this is very rude behavior.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Kimse şarkı mırıldanmaz çünkü bu çok kaba bir davranış.
If this lesson is about impersonal passives, why is mırıldanmaz active?
This sentence uses the subject kimse (nobody) with an active verb to state a general rule. To use the impersonal passive taught in this lesson, you would drop kimse and make the verb passive: Şarkı mırıldanılmaz (One does not hum songs / Humming is not done). Both are natural ways to express general rules in Turkish.
Why doesn't şarkı have an accusative ending like şarkıyı?
Because it refers to humming songs in general, not one specific song. When a direct object is non-specific or indefinite, it doesn't take the accusative -ı/i/u/ü suffix and stays parked right next to the verb.
How is the negative formed in mırıldanmaz?
It uses the negative aorist (broad tense) suffix -maz for the third-person singular. The positive would be mırıldanır (hums). Since kimse means "anybody" or "nobody" depending on the verb, pairing it with the negative -maz gives us "nobody hums."
Why is the word order kaba bir davranış instead of bir kaba davranış?
In Turkish, descriptive adjectives almost always come before the indefinite article bir. The standard order is [Adjective] + bir + [Noun]. So, "a rude behavior" is literally phrased as "rude a behavior".