Word
Bu akademisyen kimyada bir devrim yaptı.
Meaning
This academic made a revolution in chemistry.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Bu akademisyen kimyada bir devrim yaptı.
bu
this
bir
a / an
yapmak
to do / to make
kimya
chemistry
Questions & Answers about Bu akademisyen kimyada bir devrim yaptı.
Since this lesson is about hatta, how could we use it to add to this sentence?
Hatta means 'even' or 'in fact' and is used to escalate a point. You could follow this sentence with an even more impressive fact, like: ...hatta Nobel Ödülü kazandı! (...in fact, they won the Nobel Prize!).
Why do we use bir before devrim?
While devrim yapmak acts as a general compound verb meaning 'to revolutionize', adding bir makes it a specific noun phrase: 'made a revolution'. It emphasizes the specific, singular impact of this academic.
Why is it kimyada (in chemistry) rather than kimyaya (to chemistry)?
In English, you might say someone brought a revolution 'to' a field. In Turkish, you make a revolution 'within' that field. That is why it takes the locative case suffix -da (in/on/at) rather than the dative case -ya (to).
Is akademisyen related to the English word 'academic'?
Yes! It comes from the French word 'académicien'. Turkish borrowed many academic and scientific terms from French, which is why it looks so familiar to English speakers.