Learn Turkish: İşçiler istedikleri kadar palet istiflediler. - The workers stacked as many pallets as they wanted.

This relies on the grammar pattern for this lesson. We take the verb root iste- (to want), add the -dik participle suffix, and then attach the possessive -leri (their). Finally, we add kadar (as much as). Literally, this translates to "as much as their wanting," which smoothly becomes "as many as they wanted" in English.

Why is palet in the singular form if the workers stacked multiple pallets?

In Turkish, nouns usually remain in their singular form when they follow a word or phrase that expresses a number or quantity. Because istedikleri kadar acts as an expression of amount, palet doesn't take the plural suffix -ler.

Since the subject İşçiler is already plural, why does the verb istiflediler also have the plural suffix -ler?

When the subject of a sentence is human and plural (like işçiler), the verb can actually be singular (istifledi). However, it is also completely grammatically correct to make the verb plural (istiflediler). Doing so is common when the speaker wants to emphasize that the workers were all individually doing the action, or simply as a stylistic choice.

What is the root of the verb istiflediler?