Breakdown of Çığlık sesi yankılandığında herkes sustu mu?
susmak
to be quiet / to stop talking
ses
voice / sound
herkes
everyone
mi
question particle (mı/mi/mu/mü)
Questions & Answers about Çığlık sesi yankılandığında herkes sustu mu?
How exactly does yankılandığında break down to mean 'when it echoed'?
The root is yankılanmak (to echo). We drop -mak and add the participle suffix -dık. Because it's followed by a vowel, -dık softens to -dığ-. Then we add the 3rd person possessive -ı (referring to the sound, 'its echoing'), the buffer letter -n-, and finally the locative case -da (at/on). Literally, it means 'At the time of its echoing.'
Why is it çığlık sesi instead of just çığlık ses?
This is a noun compound. When linking two nouns where the first describes the type or category of the second, Turkish adds a possessive suffix to the second noun. So ses (sound) gets the 3rd person possessive -i to become çığlık sesi (scream sound).
Herkes means 'everyone' which involves multiple people. Why is the verb singular (sustu) instead of plural (sustular)?
In Turkish, indefinite pronouns like herkes (everyone), hiç kimse (no one), and kimse (anybody) always take a grammatically singular verb. Even though it refers to many people, you treat the subject as singular, which is actually very similar to how 'everyone' works in English!
Is the verb yankılanmak (to echo) related to a shorter root word?