Breakdown of Geçen sömestir hiç deyim öğrenmedik.
hiç
at all / any
öğrenmek
to learn
geçen
last, previous
sömestir
semester
deyim
idiom
Questions & Answers about Geçen sömestir hiç deyim öğrenmedik.
This lesson is about -dik participles. Why does "last semester" use geçen (with -en) instead?
Geçen comes from geçmek (to pass). Here, the semester itself is doing the passing, so it is the subject. Therefore, we use the subject participle -(y)en to say "the passing semester" (last semester). If we were the subject of that modifier, like "the semester that we spent," we would use a -dik participle like geçirdiğimiz sömestir.
Why is deyim singular in Turkish when the English translation says "any idioms"?
In Turkish, non-specific direct objects are usually kept singular and take no case endings. Because we are talking about idioms as a general category rather than specific ones that we can point to, deyim stays singular.
Why doesn't geçen sömestir have a locative ending like -de to mean "in the last semester"?
Many common time expressions indicating when an action happened don't need the locative ending. Phrases starting with geçen (last) or gelecek (next) act as time adverbs just as they are, without needing a case ending.
How does hiç work with the negative verb here?
Hiç means "ever" or "at all". When paired with a negative verb like öğrenmedik (we didn't learn), it translates as "any" or "none". Putting it before the object, as in hiç deyim öğrenmedik, strongly emphasizes that zero idioms were learned.
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