Word
Artık hırlamıyor ve tırmalamıyor.
Meaning
It doesn't growl and scratch anymore.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Artık hırlamıyor ve tırmalamıyor.
ve
and
artık
no longer; from now on
hırlamak
to growl
tırmalamak
to scratch
Questions & Answers about Artık hırlamıyor ve tırmalamıyor.
How does artık work here to mean "anymore"?
In this sentence, artık is paired with negative verbs (hırlamıyor and tırmalamıyor) to mean "not anymore" or "no longer". If the verbs were positive, artık would mean "from now on".
Why do the verbs end in -mıyor instead of -mayor?
Both verb roots are hırla- (to growl) and tırmala- (to scratch). To make them negative, we add -ma. However, the present continuous suffix -yor always narrows the vowel right before it. Therefore, the wide "a" in -ma narrows to an "ı", turning hırla-ma-yor into hırlamıyor.
Do I need to repeat artık before tırmalamıyor?
No, you don't need to. Because the word ve (and) joins these two actions into a single thought, placing artık at the beginning of the sentence automatically applies it to both verbs.
How do we know the subject is "it" if there is no pronoun like o in the sentence?
Because there is no personal ending attached after the -yor suffix, the verb is in the third-person singular (he/she/it). Given the context of growling and scratching, it is safe to assume the subject is an animal, so "it" is the most natural translation.