Breakdown of Sepette tazeler de çürükler de var.
var
there is / existent
sepet
basket
taze
fresh
de
too, also (de/da) / even if (concessive particle after conditional) / and (linking clauses)
çürük
rotten
Questions & Answers about Sepette tazeler de çürükler de var.
How do we get "fresh ones" and "rotten ones" without using a Turkish word for "ones"?
In Turkish, adjectives can stand alone as nouns simply by taking noun suffixes. By adding the plural suffixes, the adjective taze (fresh) becomes tazeler (the fresh ones) and çürük (rotten) becomes çürükler (the rotten ones).
Why is de repeated after both tazeler and çürükler?
The repeated structure ... de ... de is a common way to say "both ... and ...". So tazeler de çürükler de translates to "both the fresh ones and the rotten ones."
Why is de written as a separate word, but the "in" on sepette is attached?
The locative suffix meaning "in/on/at" attaches directly to the noun. Here, sepet (basket) takes -te because it ends in a hard consonant. However, the conjunction de used here for "both/and" is a completely separate word. It is always written with a space and never changes to te or ta.
Since the sentence is talking about plural things, why does it use var instead of varlar?
The existential words var (there is/are) and yok (there isn't/aren't) do not take plural suffixes when you are simply stating that things exist. The plurality is already shown by tazeler and çürükler, so var stays in its base form.
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