Breakdown of Nereye doğru gidiyoruz? Çünkü yürüdükçe daha çok çalı ve sarmaşık görüyorum.
ve
and
çok
a lot of / many
gitmek
to go
yürümek
to walk
görmek
to see
nereye
where to
daha
more
çünkü
because
doğru
towards
çalı
bush / shrub
sarmaşık
ivy / vine
Questions & Answers about Nereye doğru gidiyoruz? Çünkü yürüdükçe daha çok çalı ve sarmaşık görüyorum.
What is the difference between asking Nereye gidiyoruz? and Nereye doğru gidiyoruz?
Nereye means "Where to?" (using the dative suffix -e/-ye). Adding doğru after a dative word creates the meaning of "towards". So, while Nereye gidiyoruz? asks for our exact destination, Nereye doğru gidiyoruz? is a bit less exact, meaning "In what direction are we heading?" or "Towards where are we going?".
What does the -dükçe ending mean in yürüdükçe?
The suffix -dıkça / -dikçe (and its vowel harmony variants like -dükçe) means "as [something happens]" or "the more [something happens]". Here, yürü- is the verb "to walk", so yürüdükçe means "as we walk" or "the more we walk". It links the continuous walking to seeing more bushes.
The translation says "bushes", so why isn't there a plural suffix on çalı?
In Turkish, when you are talking about a general category or an unspecified amount of something, you often leave the noun singular. Since the speaker is seeing a general mass of "bush and ivy" rather than specific individual bushes, çalı ve sarmaşık are left in the singular form.
Could I just say daha çalı instead of daha çok çalı for "more bushes"?
No, you need çok here. Daha on its own means "more" when modifying adjectives or adverbs (like daha büyük for "bigger"). But when you want to say "more of a noun" (a larger quantity of bushes), you must use daha çok (literally "more much") or daha fazla.
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