Word
Artık köpeğe sakince yaklaşıp şefkat gösteriyoruz.
Meaning
Now, we approach the dog calmly and show affection.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Artık köpeğe sakince yaklaşıp şefkat gösteriyoruz.
köpek
dog
göstermek
to show
artık
no longer; from now on
yaklaşmak
to approach
Questions & Answers about Artık köpeğe sakince yaklaşıp şefkat gösteriyoruz.
The translation says 'Now', but doesn't artık usually mean 'anymore'?
Artık signals a change in state or a new phase. When used with a negative verb, it translates to 'anymore' (as in, 'we do not do this anymore'). However, with a positive verb like gösteriyoruz here, it means 'from now on' or 'now, unlike before'. It emphasizes that approaching the dog calmly is a new behavior.
Why use yaklaşıp instead of just saying yaklaşıyoruz ve?
The -ıp / -ip / -up / -üp suffix is a very natural way to connect two related actions done by the same subject. It acts like 'and' while letting you drop the tense and person endings from the first verb to avoid repetition. Here, yaklaşıp borrows its present continuous tense and 'we' subject from the final verb, gösteriyoruz.
Why is köpek in the dative case (köpeğe)?
In Turkish, the verb yaklaşmak (to approach) always takes the dative case (-e / -a), because you are moving 'towards' something. Notice as well that adding the vowel suffix causes the hard k at the end of köpek to soften into a ğ.
What is the -ce suffix doing in sakince?